Standard or not, the animation will not begin. If you are using CSS rollovers, the image is not getting reloaded, simply moving from one part of the image to another. It is standard practice to not have animated objects loop through the animation indefinitely.
So the answer is: it will be static when they return to the non-hover state. Ted -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenny Graham Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 1:28 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Is there a standard for this? This isn't the usual type of question asked here, but it's very much a web standards question, so here goes. Take the following situation: An anchor element has a short, non-repeating animated gif as its background. On hover, that link's background is changed to a different image. Someone lets the page load, and allows that animated gif to play through to it's last frame. They then hover over the link, changing its background image. They move the mouse away from the link. Is there a standard anywhere that specifies what happens at this point? Should the animation start over, or should it go back to the last frame? In IE and Opera, it starts over. In Firefox, it skips to the last frame. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
