Issue 3690 - chromium - Implement pausing of animated images

Status:	Upstream
Owner:	karen@chromium.org
Closed:	Feb 2009
Cc:	anantha@chromium.org
Type-Bug
Pri-3
OS-All
Area-BrowserUI
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Reported by jon@chromium.org, Oct 23, 2008

tristan on September 02 2008 20:48 (New)
Summary
   Implement pausing of animated images
Component
   Chrome > WebKit
CC
   chrome-bugs
Type
   Feature request
Priority
   P3
Severity
   S2
In prod
   false
URLs affected
   <none>
Notes
This may seem like a minor thing, but if you browse into the less "sedate" 
areas of the web, where animated .gif files run wild and free, the ability 
to slap a key (such as the "Esc" key in Firefox) to pause rendering of 
animated images can make the difference between an unusable web experience 
and browsing bliss.

See http://b/1356539

Comment 1 by jasonsp...@gmail.com, Feb 12, 2009

This is almost identical to  Issue 5276 :	Escape Key/Stop button doesn't freeze 
animated GIFs.

Comment 2 by jasonsp...@gmail.com, Feb 13, 2009

Firefox and IE support Esc stopping animated GIFs.

Safari and Chromium do not.  I asked in Freenode IRC #webkit.  smfr said WebKit does 
not support stopping animated GIFs.  I filed a feature request https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23945 .

Comment 3 by phajdan...@chromium.org, Feb 13, 2009

 Issue 5276  has been merged into this issue.

Cc: anan...@chromium.org

Comment 4 by jon@chromium.org, Feb 13, 2009

A feature request has been filed against WebKit, see https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23945

Status: Upstream
Owner: j...@chromium.org

Comment 5 by prog...@chromium.org, Jul 10, 2009

 Issue 16478  has been merged into this issue.

Comment 6 by mattcutts, Aug 12, 2009

Any word on whether WebKit might support this feature request?

Comment 7 by jon@chromium.org, Sep 24, 2009

Karen will be handling WebKit issues.  I am moving myself off of being an 
owner of this issue.  She may want to handle these differently so I am 
setting the status as untriaged.

Status: Untriaged
Owner: ka...@chromium.org

Comment 8 by ben@chromium.org, Sep 29, 2009

(No comment was entered for this change.)

Status: Available

Comment 9 by karen@chromium.org, Oct 07, 2009

(No comment was entered for this change.)

Status: Upstream

Comment 10 by DanFabulich, Dec 02, 2009

Everyone who has starred this issue should log in to 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23945 and assign their personal 10 votes to 
that WebKit issue.  It's currently "UNCONFIRMED" which means that no developer has yet 
looked at it.  Typically when a bug reaches ~100 votes it's automatically converted to 
"NEW" which might put it on somebody's plate.

Comment 11 by DanFabulich, Dec 08 (2 days ago)

The WebKit issue has been confirmed by popular vote.  However, I asked around on 
#webkit IRC and Alexey (ap) remarked that he believes that there's still no browser 
vendor interest in this feature, so the WebKit issue probably won't be implemented 
until there's more support/interest from browser vendors.  (Edited IRC log attached.)  

It would be much appreciated if someone with an @chromium.org address (Karen?) would 
remark on https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23945 to say that this feature is 
desired.

	2009-12-08.txt
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Comment 12 by DanFabulich, Dec 08 (2 days ago)

See also https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9767  WebPreference methods 
setAllowsAnimatedImages: and setAllowsAnimatedImageLooping: don't actually affect 
WebView behaviors

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