652767 - cyclical :hover effect (:hover moves content away from mouse, and vice-versa) combined with transitions causes flickering

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Alice0775 White]

Attachment: sample html

Build Identifier:
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-2.0/rev/9b8188993c1a
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0.2pre) Gecko/20110425 Firefox/4.0.2pre ID:20110425030533

transform too sensitive, image flickers.

Not so sensitive on Chrome 10.0.648.205.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox4
2. Open sample
3. Mouse hover over red border

Actual Results:
 image flickers.

Expected Results:
 image should not flicker.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This doesn't show up on other browsers because they don't update the :hover state when the content changes.

For the non-transition case, we have code to break the infinite loop, but it doesn't kick in with transitions because transitions delay things.