Request review for PauseFrame API

[jkarlin]

Hello TAG!

I'm requesting a TAG review of:

• Name: PauseFrame API
• Specification URL: none yet
• Explainer, Requirements Doc, or Example code: Explainer
• Tests: none yet
• Primary contacts: jkarlin

Further details (optional):

• Relevant time constraints or deadlines: This is early stage, but in an ideal world would ship by end of 2017.
• I have read and filled out the Self-Review Questionnare on Security and Privacy. The assessment is here.
• I have reviewed the TAG's API Design Principles

You should also know that...

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]

[triblondon]

Overall impression: A number of us think this is a great idea. Others feel its a bit of a blunt instrument. We're wondering about:

• CSS hover effects - do they continue in a paused frame?
• Does a frame know it's been paused (after unpausing). Obviously it could be
• Queue could grow very large while frame is paused?
• Interaction with service workers?
• Interaction with Houdini?
• Naming: Pause and Frame are terms related to animation, is that confusing? We acknowledge that it's not a name that is in the API itself.
• Can a page pause itself?

Some of these issues have already been raised on the tracker, but I've gather them here as a collective set of TAG feedback. Hope this is useful and we look forward to hearing more.

[jkarlin]

Thanks so much! I'm slow to respond for the next week or two but will dig into the issues asap.

[triblondon]

@jkarlin friendly ping. If you don't have any feedback on our review shall we close?

[jkarlin]

Yes, thank you very much for the feedback!