Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Multimedia and Commons/(Un)-Pause Buttons for animated GIFs

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(Un)-Pause Buttons for animated GIFs

  • Problem: Animated Gifs are an important way of illustrating some concepts. But they can also be extremely distracting and annoying while reading text near to them.
  • Who would benefit: All readers and editors
  • Proposed solution: Add a lite icon to allow to stop the animation. If the icon is pressed stop the animation and replace the icon with another icon that allows to resume the playback.
  • More comments: The nowerdays defunct Firefox-Addon Toggle animated GIFs implemented this very nicely.
  • Phabricator tickets:
  • Proposer: MichaelSchoenitzer (talk) 00:19, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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