[whatwg] "canvas" tag and animations ?

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Sjoerd Visscher wrote:
>
> This isn't needed. Just like in normal HTML a drawing transaction is 
> automatically started when the javascript code starts, and finished when 
> the javascript code is done. And this is how it is implemented in 
> Firefox (don't know about Safari).
> 
> Maybe the spec should describe this somewhere? Not specifically for 
> canvas, but for script in general: Changes on the DOM must be performed 
> instantly, and values like offsetWidth etc. must be recalculated, but 
> only visible when the script is done.

I don't think it would be right to make it non-conforming for a browser to 
show intermediate renderings. It would be a bad user experience, but, 
well, so would many things; it doesn't mean we have to disallow them.

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