servo/webrender

Support color animated properties

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#2,118 opened on Nov 28, 2017

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area: performancebugzilledhelp wantedtype: enhancement

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Description

Animating things like background colors isn't uncommon, should be fairly straight forward to do in webrender without rebuilding the scene and is typically expensive in Gecko without webrender because the latter relies on invalidation->repaint->double-buffering->texture-upload.

While not high priority, it would make for a fun feature to show off webrender's architecture.

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Research direction
Investigate how webrender currently handles animated properties and implement color animation support without rebuilding the scene.
Tech stack
rust
Domain
computer graphics
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
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Half day
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Active
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
Clear
Prerequisites
RustGPU rendering basics
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
70