hixie: compat requires animated GIFs to play together (hamster dance strikes again) (whatwg r5640)

hixie: compat requires animated GIFs to play together (hamster dance
strikes again) (whatwg r5640)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.4516&r2=1.4517&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5639&to=5640

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--- Overview.html 19 Oct 2010 00:09:44 -0000 1.4516
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@@ -65375,6 +65375,16 @@
   expected to provide access to the context menu that would have come
   up if the user interacted with the actual image.</p>
 
+  <hr><p>All animated images with the same <a href="#absolute-url">absolute URL</a> and
+  the same image data are expected to be rendered synchronised to the
+  same timeline as a group, with the timeline starting at the time of
+  the most recent addition to the group.</p>
+
+  <p class="note">In other words, the animation loop of an animated
+  image is restarted each time another image with the same
+  <a href="#absolute-url">absolute URL</a> and image data begins to animate, e.g.
+  after being inserted into the document.</p>
+
   <hr><p>The following CSS rules are expected to apply when the
   <code><a href="#document">Document</a></code> is in <a href="#quirks-mode">quirks mode</a>:</p>

Received on Tuesday, 19 October 2010 00:24:52 UTC