Wow. This was a fantastically informative email Dean. Thank you very much for sending it.
-eric On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Dean Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > It is with some reluctance that I inform this list of a new ENABLE option: > ANIMATION_API. I realise we are supposed to be removing these, not adding :( > > Basically the feature is a scripting interface to CSS animations and > potentially SMIL/SVG. It doesn't do much at the moment but will eventually > allow you to query for all the running animations, pause and scrub the > timeline, and create keyframes without going through the CSS OM (yuck!). It > also needs to play nicely with the new requestAnimationFrame method. > > Why a feature? Since it is a work-in-progress and does not have an official > standard behind it (we plan to submit it once baked), it would be bad if > official browser releases exposed something that people might start to use or > test for. This allows an implementation to hide the DOM API. The actual > implementation is still present. > > It is disabled by default. Before I added the ENABLE, it was visible in trunk > and nightly builds. > > If you have any comments on the API in its very early stages, please contact > me or send to [email protected]. > > Dean > > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
