[webkit-dev] DOM Rendering synchronization with javascript

[Darin Fisher]

webkitRequestAnimationFrame may be helpful to you.

Regards,
-Darin



On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Ian Johnson <enjalot at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for the ability to synchronize my javascript calls with DOM
> rendering. I want to do calculations based on the rendered size of an SVG
> text element and I've run into cases where the font change will take longer
> than the execution time of my layout calculation code so I end up with bad
> results. Are there some sort of events that can be listened to? I'm fairly
> certain
>
> I've tried searching around and haven't found anything, could this be
> proposed as a feature?
>
> Something llke a barrier() or dom_fence() would be great. I think as more
> people start to heavily manipulate the DOM especially for SVG this type of
> thing will become a larger issue.
>
> I'm happy to help any way I can, but I'm new to the browser world, any
> pointers would be welcome :)
>
> Thank you
>
> --
> Ian Johnson
> http://enja.org
>
>
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