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Re: 2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide - short animation that repeats

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Apr 17, 2020 10:04AM

On 17/04/2020 16:41, glen walker wrote:
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> I think this type of argument would be focusing on the letter of the law
> instead of the spirit of the law.

Yup, this goes into "lawyering" territory, but agree that just going by
the normative wording of the SC, I'd say the animation counts as "done"
when it stops (though you could take THAT to the extreme and claim that
if it paused even for a microsecond just before the 5 seconds are over,
and then kicks in again, "technically" the animation fell below the 5
sec threshold too). But in this case, it's a bit more clear-cut when
applying common sense at least.

My purely personal take would be: this nominally passes 2.2.2, but as a
best practice I'd suggest that the client still changes it/provides a
pause mechanism.

P
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