1246690 - element.animate unsupported/wrong property should display a warning in the devTool console

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1253470

(Core :: DOM: Animation, defect)

Description

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

Attachment: scripte_animation_wrong_property.html

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0
Build ID: 20160123151951

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open attached file
2. Open devtools web console


Actual results:

Nothing


Expected results:

There should be a warning in the web console : 

    "background-color" is not a valid property to be animated. You may want to try "backgroundColor". See the valid animated properties on MDN ( link to MDN ).

Comment 1

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

I think I saw a message like this on Nightly last week ( "Trying to animate unsupported properties" ), but I can't see it anymore.

Comment 2

[Loic]

FF44: TypeError: div.animate is not a function

Comment 3

[Patrick Brosset <:pbro>]

(In reply to Loic from comment #2)
> FF44: TypeError: div.animate is not a function
element.animate only landed in FF47

Comment 4

[Brian Birtles (:birtles, Feb 26~ parental leave)]

Even though this bug came first, I'm duping it to bug 1253470 since that bug has a bit more context.