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Re:Chrome updated to temporarily remove the autoplay policy ... by Buge on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @03:13AM (#17080562)
When I click the upvote button in Hacker News, and the upvote button disappears, would that be considered an animation?
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Re:Chrome updated to temporarily remove the autoplay policy ... by chatmasta on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @07:59AM (#17081675)
No because there is nothing like -WebKit-transition on it.
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Re:Chrome updated to temporarily remove the autoplay policy ... by pilif on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @08:40AM (#17081888)
Then people would go back to doing their animations with JS at the cost of more CPU usage, worse frame rate and worse battery life.

Finding out whether JS is currently animating an element is about as hard as solving the halting problem.

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Re:Chrome updated to temporarily remove the autoplay policy ... by nitrogen on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @11:47AM (#17083331)
JS timers and element modifications could be rate limited. Far far far cry from the halting problem.
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Re:Chrome updated to temporarily remove the autoplay policy ... by lsh on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @03:16AM (#17080567)
I don't think so. Definitely a state transition though.

If on click it went grey then disappeared it miiight be considered animated.

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