1126460 - CSS: Transition timing function "steps()" does not follow stepping curve on aborted transition state.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[bjorklund.emil]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.93 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

See http://jsbin.com/tomoso/2/edit

1. Create an animation with a step function
2. Trigger the state that starts the animation (hover over example in example URL) that switches the background position, creating a stop-motion-like animation sequence.
3. Abort the hover before the animation has finished playing.




Actual results:

The animation follows a different path, causing the background to appear in unexpected places.


Expected results:

The animation should reverse along the same steps as it travelled in forwards, not dividing the current length of the transition into new steps (which I assume is what is happening).

This strikes me as very unexpected behavior.

(Note: Chrome seems to have the same behavior.)