Re: ISSUE-3 (monotonic-clock): Animation frame times should be monotonically increasing [Request Animation Frame]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Jatinder Mann <jmann@microsoft.com> wrote:

> As we have been evaluating this spec, the concept of a
> window.animationStartTime property seems like a very reasonable property to
> standardize. This property will allow all animations to have the same
> starting point. Without standardizing this property, web developers will be
> forced to use Date.now(), which currently is not defined as monotonically
> increasing and may not always have a millisecond resolution.
>
> We feel that both window.animationStartTime and the requestAnimationFrame()
> callback timestamp should be implemented as monotonically increasing clocks,
> in UTC format with millisecond resolution.
>

Please call it animationTime or even window.currentTime. Then this clock can
be used for other things without major cognitive dissonance.

Rob
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