522786 - Add (Core) animation to Tabspose when clicking on a tab preview

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Camino Graveyard :: Tabbed Browsing, enhancement)

Description

[Jan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; sl; rv:1.9.0.15pre) Gecko/2009091516 Camino/2.0b4 (like Firefox/3.0.15pre)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; sl; rv:1.9.0.15pre) Gecko/2009091516 Camino/2.0b4 (like Firefox/3.0.15pre)

Camino 2.0 should really use some more (Core) animation effects. Not something overkill or bloated, but still more then it is already used.

For instance: Clicking on a tab preview in Tabspose should more closely resemble the experience from Safari; instead of just switching to the web page in question there should be a nice gradual transition to the selected site. 

I am not a programmer, so I don't know how much time and patience would be required to accomplish this little addition, but I still think it would benefit the end user experience.

Reproducible: Always




See bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468340 for a similar opinion.

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Camino 2.0 should really use some more (Core) animation effects.

CoreAnimation is 10.5+, so it's impossible to use it in Camino 2.0.

In general, animation is just a whole lot more work while also supporting 10.4 (which we've run into with other features as well). This is certainly worth exploring once 10.4 support is dropped though.

Comment 2

[Jan]

> > Camino 2.0 should really use some more (Core) animation effects.
> 
> CoreAnimation is 10.5+, so it's impossible to use it in Camino 2.0.
> 
> In general, animation is just a whole lot more work while also supporting 10.4
> (which we've run into with other features as well). This is certainly worth
> exploring once 10.4 support is dropped though.

Yes, that is what Smokey told me in one email a while back. BTW, does the Camino crew have any data (or at least estimates) about the platforms and OS versions of our users? Judging by the fact that Snow Leopard is out now (that being 10.6) maybe there should be some talk about gradually moving forward and potentially dropping some legacy support in a future version of Camino (maybe 3.0?)...

Comment 3

[Stuart Morgan]

(In reply to comment #2)
> does the Camino crew have any data (or at least estimates) about the
> platforms and OS versions of our users?

Yes, we do (for users who haven't disabled auto-updating, but we assume few do).

> maybe there should be some talk about gradually moving forward and
> potentially dropping some legacy support in a future version of Camino

We do that routinely, as you can see from the supported OS versions for older versions of Camino; counting Camino 2.0 we've done it three times. Planning for dropping OS version support is way out of scope for this bug, however.

Comment 4

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Confirming per comment 1 and IRC for whatever future version of Camino drops 10.4 support.