Re: motionless?

At 10:24 AM 2001-01-04 -0500, David Poehlman wrote:
>below are two checkpoints with the word motionless in them.  I know
>I've seen them before but it occurred to me that blinking is not
>actually motion and that for both, perhaps the word static would be
>better than motionless?
>
>   3.3 Allow the user to configure the user agent to render animated
>or
>          blinking text as motionless text. [Priority 1]
>          Content type labels: VisualText.
>          Techniques for checkpoint 3.3
>
>   3.4 Allow the user to configure the user agent to render blinking
>          images as motionless images. [Priority 1]
>          Content type labels: Color, Animation.
>          Techniques for checkpoint 3.4
>

AG::

Good point.  On the other hand, 'static' risks confusion with issues of
dynamic
content.

Other terms that might work here:  unchanging, frozen, unblinking, "an
unchanging display."

Al

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