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Web Animations Javascript API [playback control]

Category

Graphics

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 39)

Intent stage

None

Summary

A unified model for supporting animation and synchronization on the Web platform. This feature covers playback control of AnimationPlayer: play(), pause(), reverse(), finish(), currentTime, startTime, playbackRate and playState.

Standards & signals

• Specification: http://dev.w3.org/fxtf/web-animations/
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: In development
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=396369

Docs: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2014/05/Web-Animations---element-animate-is-now-in-Chrome-36

Samples: http://web-animations.github.io

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