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

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From: Amber Holladay
Date: Apr 20, 2020 4:53PM

Imagine you are quarantined in the house with your child for 2 months and
they are doing something that is annoying and completely distracting to
everyone else in the house. Finally you tell them to "stop!" Twenty seconds
later they start doing it again. "I thought I told you to stop," you say.
Your child: "I did stop."

Stop means stop, it does not mean "give me a 20 second break."


On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 10:14 AM Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> 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
>
>
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