Bug 85693

Summary:

Add new Setting/Preference to disable requestAnimationFrame

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Dean Jackson <dino>

Component:

WebCore Misc.

Assignee:

Dean Jackson <dino>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

Severity:

Normal

CC:

jamesr, simon.fraser

Priority:

Keywords:

InRadar

Version:

528+ (Nightly build)

Hardware:

Unspecified

OS:

Unspecified

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Patch	simon.fraser: review+

Description Dean Jackson 2012-05-04 19:51:58 PDT

There are some rare applications that need to disable requestAnimationFrame, such as offline renderers or archivers. Add a new Preference so that these applications can turn off the rAF machinery.

For some background, the issue we hit is setting up the link to the display timer. We don't actually want to delete the feature - we want the page to still think rAF is there, just make sure that the animation is never serviced.

Comment 1 Dean Jackson 2012-05-04 20:02:48 PDT

<rdar://problem/11043693>

Comment 2 Dean Jackson 2012-05-04 20:08:01 PDT

Created attachment 140377 [details]
Patch

Comment 3 Dean Jackson 2012-05-05 14:39:11 PDT

Committed r116230: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/116230>

Comment 4 James Robinson 2012-05-07 12:51:09 PDT

Sounds like what you really want is a setting/preference to disable the display link mechanism.