requestAnimationFrame is also available in Dedicated Workers

[chrisdavidmills]

@Kaiido commented on Mon Oct 05 2020

Content Issue

• Please close this issue, I accidentally submitted it without adding any details
• New documentation
• Correction or update

URLs of page you are seeing the problem on:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window/requestAnimationFrame
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window/cancelAnimationFrame

Details

requestAnimationFrame and cancelAnimationFrame used to be Window only methods, but it has recently been added to DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope too. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/imagebitmap-and-animations.html#animationframeprovider

interface mixin AnimationFrameProvider {
  unsigned long requestAnimationFrame(FrameRequestCallback callback);
  undefined cancelAnimationFrame(unsigned long handle);
};
Window includes AnimationFrameProvider;
DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope includes AnimationFrameProvider;

I guess the page should now be Web/API/WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope/requestAnimationFrame, but I fear this would break any link to the current /Web/API/window/requestAnimationFrame. So I'm not sure how it should get handled.

Also, compat-data should probably be updated (currently these methods are supported in Blink only).

[chrisdavidmills]

Issue moved to mdn/content #1519 via ZenHub