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Animated clip-path not rendering correctly in safari

gerben test
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I am trying to create floating circular image mask using svg clip-path. It works fine in Firefox and Chrome but Safari somehow cuts off the clipped image. Resizing the browser seems to (temporarily) solve the issue.

 

I have no clue what is going on. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

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Yeah, that's unrelated to GSAP - Safari just doesn't render things correctly (Safari bug). Apparently clip-path isn't "officially" supported by Safari, at least according to the info I saw on the web. But the weird rendering behavior got me thinking - maybe if you could force the browser to re-render on each tick/update, it'd work. Sure enough, that seems to help. 

 

So in your example, you could do something like: 

var img = document.querySelector(".svg-image");
function redrawClipPath() { // <- call this in an onUpdate
    img.style.clipPath = "none";
    img.offsetWidth; //force a style recalculation
    img.style.clipPath = "url(#svgPath)";
};

 

See the Pen ?editors=0010 by GreenSock (@GreenSock) on CodePen

 

Does that help at all? 

 

You might want to add some conditional logic so that it only runs in Safari (strictly for performance reasons). Hopefully this gives you a nudge in the right direction. 

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Yep, anytime you trigger a style recalculation, it can be costly. It all depends on how many other things are flying around on the screen, how big the "dirty" area is,  and how fast the user's processor is, etc. You may not notice a difference. I would suggest running tests of your own.

 

Happy tweening! 

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