Animations on elmo

[Axel Hecht]

Hi,

I'm just reviewing https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770360,
which adds an animation, and I figured I take that piece out of the bug
and here, with Crystal to have some UX sanity check on my personal
opinions. Crystal, in particular, do the buckets make sense? Are there
suggested timings for those buckets?

I think there are three buckets, no animation, fast animation, and slow
animation.

No animation should be the default. Fast animation is good when you're
modifying a page, but the change itself isn't worth following. Slow
animation is only useful if you're potentially interested in following
how a piece of information changes state.

Examples:

No animation: Going from one page to another just goes. Changing facet
selections on https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/dashboard?tree=fx_aurora
just does its thing.

Fast animation: https://l10n.mozilla.org/teams/ach loads bugzilla and
webdashboard data, and shows them with a fast animation. Good to see the
existing content moving elsewhere, but the change itself isn't worth
observing.
Other candidates would be changing the error locales or missing strings
on https://l10n-dev-sj.mozilla.org/dashboard/tree-status/fennec_aurora
(sorry Crystal, bad cert). The graph itself just scales different, that
could also be a fast animation.

Slow animation: One display that I'd like to have is one that visualizes
the change between
https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/app/locale-changes/fx12,
https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/app/locale-changes/fx13 (up to
https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/app/locale-changes/fx15). That's a use
case where I'm actually thinking of introducing a slow animation.


Does that make sense?

Axel