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

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From: Steve Green
Date: Apr 17, 2020 10:14AM

I would argue that the animation is of infinite length and it just happens not to change for 20 seconds. If there is not a mechanism to stop it, it will continue indefinitely.

The assertion that a brief pause in an animation defines its end and resets the timer, is spurious. Many continuous animations such as "loading" indicators contain brief pauses, but it would be quite a stretch to suggest that they are a series of short animations rather than a continuous one.

Perhaps the test should be whether the animation stops and restarts by itself (in which case I consider it to be continuous) or if it only restarts in response to an event such as a page load, scroll or click event.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd