- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@erols.com>
- Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 18:27:58 -0500
- To: "Matt May" <mcmay@bestkungfu.com>, "WAI" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Matt, And this script is set to indefinite loops? Argghh... A true case for the back button! ... Seriously, tho, does such a page exist in which someone has put crawling ants, rats, butterflies, etc. across a page of serious text? Or are we discussing a hypothetical example? Anne At 02:59 PM 3/8/01 -0800, Matt May wrote: >----- 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 > > Anne Pemberton apembert@erols.com http://www.erols.com/stevepem http://www.geocities.com/apembert45
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