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: P2 Keywords: InRadar
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Patch simon.fraser: review+

Dean Jackson
Reported 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.
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Patch (29.38 KB, patch)
2012-05-04 20:08 PDT, Dean Jackson 		simon.fraser: review+
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Dean Jackson
Comment 1 2012-05-04 20:02:48 PDT
<rdar://problem/11043693>
Dean Jackson
Comment 2 2012-05-04 20:08:01 PDT
Created attachment 140377 [details] Patch
Dean Jackson
Comment 3 2012-05-05 14:39:11 PDT
Committed r116230: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/116230>
James Robinson
Comment 4 2012-05-07 12:51:09 PDT
Sounds like what you really want is a setting/preference to disable the display link mechanism.
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