Re: requestAnimationFrame rate for background tabs and offscreen instances

Cameron McCormack <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.layout
Organization Mozilla Corporation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Boris Zbarsky:
> The real question here is what should get throttled.  Just rAF?  Or
> everything we run off the refresh driver (rAF, SMIL animations, CSS
> transitions/animations, etc)?  The latter fire page-visible events
> that might well break pages if we turn them off completely, but I'm
> probably OK throttling them all off altogether as long as Chrome
> does the same thing (and we're sure they're doing it; e.g. they ship
> it).

This is the kind of thing the Google folks want to standardise in their
“rendering pipeline” spec.  From what I understood, they want to
throttle everything.  I have no idea if that is what they currently do.

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Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/
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