SMIL:CSS Animation

Current status

There's an existing smil_css patch in dholbert's smil-patches patch-queue. This patch applies on top of the other patches in the queue, and it makes use of a simple "GetOverrideStyle" implementation in order to set styles.

The smil_css patch is not complete yet -- it currently has these limitations:

• It can only animate CSS properties of type nsCSSValue. (not nsCSSValuePair / nsCSSValueRect / etc)
• It can only currently interpolate between fixed-length units. (inch, mm, pt, etc). (unit-conversion code needs a reference to the PresContext & font-metrics to interpolate/interconvert between fixed-length units / display pixels / em-units / ex-units.)

Overview of Proposed Strategy

• As suggested in the documentation on the "SMIL Sandwich Model" in the smil-animation spec, I'm proposing to use an implementation backed by getOverrideStyle()
• Basic outline of how to animate CSS properties:
  1. Clear the contents of getOverrideStyle() on each element, for each animated CSS property
  2. Perform SMIL interpolation / compositing for each animated CSS property, using getComputedStyle() as the base value.
  3. Store this property in the getOverrideStyle() stylesheet.
• Note that we don't yet implement getOverrideStyle(). Here's a basic outline of how we'd implement getOverrideStyle():
  1. Add a new nsICSSStyleRule member variable on each nsStyledElement, which is used as a backing store for the override style.
  2. Internally, this should mostly behave like SVG's content style rule. (See mContentStyleRule in nsSVGElement.h and nsSVGElement.cpp )