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Re:It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video by PhasmaFelis on Thursday May 09, 2019 @03:30PM (#19871442)
There's nothing about allowing play/pause that prevents videos from behaving exactly like gifs. I've seen browsers with play/pause options for gifs, even.
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Re:It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video by silversconfused on Thursday May 09, 2019 @04:43PM (#19872235)
The stop button used to stop all gifs on a page in firefox and internet explorer. Not sure if that was a bug or a feature though, since the stop button was generally not available when page load finished.
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Re:It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video by silversconfused on Thursday May 09, 2019 @08:11PM (#19873818)
(Maybe I remembered wrong, someone else mentioned here that it was ESC, not stop)
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Re:It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video by Izkata on Friday May 10, 2019 @01:15AM (#19875250)
At least on Firefox, it was indeed stop. I believe it still works too, even though nowadays they hide the button, if you expose the functionality through an addon.
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Re:It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video by lccarrasco on Thursday May 09, 2019 @04:01PM (#19871788)
Can you tell me of one, please? I'd like to check their implementation, most play/pausable gifs I see are only converted webms.
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