Hey all,

We’ve got some web animations related patches that are stalled waiting on 
feedback about options to update the bindings generator.

There’s currently three patches waiting to be reviewed, one Web Animations, two 
binding generator fixes.

Patch 1. Web Animations: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156096
Dean already gave this one r+. But it ended up causing a build issue when Web 
Animations was disabled, and was rolled back.
So it’s now waiting on the resolution of one of the other patches below.

Patch 2. Our preferred solution to the build issue that occurs with patch 1 is 
to add support for the Conditional extended attribute on the implements WebIDL 
statement. Then we can put a conditional on the implements statement that adds 
the Animatable interface to Element.
My colleague Rawinder did this in the following patch:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158830
This patch stops the IDL preprocessor from looking for the IDL file at all, and 
all is well.

Patch 3: Another option to address the build issue is to move the 
Animatable.idl file out of the conditional in the CMake file list, so that the 
IDL preprocessor can find it and include it as a supplemental file.
This _should_ be ok, because the internals of that file are protected by 
conditionals.
But there is another bug where the preprocessor is trying to include the file 
that defines the return type for Element.getAnimations(), which is 
sequence<WebAnimations>. The IDL file that defines the WebAnimations type is 
still hidden by a conditional in the CMake file list.
Rawinder submitted a patch to fix that as well: 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158975
We’re ok with this solution, but don’t feel it’s as elegant as enabling 
conditionals on the implement statement.
This option copies Animatable.idl to DerivedSources, but at least it doesn’t 
generate any unused bindings code.

Another option is to move all the Web Animations IDL files out of the 
conditional in the CMake file list.
This seems really clunky and inefficient to me as it involves unnecessary work 
by the IDL preprocessor and generates unused bindings code. There are also 
problems with this solution, caused by the GObject bindings, that would need to 
be investigated and fix.
We could look at this, but because it’s not our preferred solution, are 
hesitant to get started. There’s a history of this sort of investigation being 
a deep rabbit hole that sucks up lots of time. I think we have enough to do 
with Web Animations by itself at this point.

It would be great to get some input on these bugs so we can continue with the 
web animations implementation.

Thanks!
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