design-reviews#161: Request for TAG review of CSS Timing Functions spec

#161: Request for TAG review of CSS Timing Functions spec

Opened Mar 24, 2017

Hello TAG!

I'm requesting a TAG review of:

Name: CSS Timing Functions level 1
Specification URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-timing-1/
Explainer, Requirements Doc, or Example code: ?
Primary contacts: birtles, shans

Further details (optional):

You should also know that... I am not actually involved in writing this spec, so can't really give much useful info here. My understanding is that this spec grew out of animations and transitions, but some parts of it (particularly the frames timing function) are new.

We'd prefer the TAG provide feedback as (please select one):

open issues in our Github repo for each point of feedback
open a single issue in our Github repo for the entire review
leave review feedback as a comment in this issue and @-notify [github usernames]

Discussions

Comment by @dbaron Apr 27, 2017 (See Github)

This was just split out of transitions; the only new thing is frames(). I think everything else has been shipping for half a decade.

Comment by @dbaron Apr 27, 2017 (See Github)

/cc @birtles @shans.

The TAG has been talking about this, and there seems to be a bit of concern about the frames() name given the other uses of the term, e.g., in requestAnimationFrame and frames as produced for the screen, and also @keyframes.

We're wondering if there are other naming options, and would like to ask the CSS WG to reconsider the name if that's possible.

Thanks for bringing this up for review!