- From: Matt May <mcmay@bestkungfu.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:59:23 -0800
- To: "Anne Pemberton" <apembert@erols.com>, "WAI" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Pemberton" <apembert@erols.com> > Doesn't the Stop button stop all everything on the page? If so, what is > the problem? Does stop not exist or work the same way in all browsers? In the case of the walking ants, the Stop button can't control that. All it controls in IE on Windows, for example, is embedded audio and animated GIFs. It's not a standard. Actually, the Stop button itself isn't even a standard insofar as it's a user-agent widget. UAAG would have to specify its behavior, and even then, the walking-ants analogy would probably sneak through, as the Stop button would have to stop script execution on the page to stop the motion of the ants, and there's no way to selectively disable scripts or (that I'm aware of) to force cleanup/garbage collection on any given script. - m
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