13 October 2023

SVG with GIF inside. How to freeze the animation?

We discovered that you can place animated GIFs inside of the SVG. This makes freezing animation very interesting problem. Example is on the site Neutec

GIF inside SVG

 

Here is a way to freeze it with javascript:
 

const image = document.querySelector('#Layer_1 image[*|href$=".gif"]');

if (image) {
    const c = document.createElement('canvas');
    const w = c.width = image.getAttribute('width');
    const h = c.height = image.getAttribute('height');

    c.getContext('2d').drawImage(image, 0, 0, w, h);
    image.setAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink', 'href', c.toDataURL('image/gif'));
}

What Kind of Things Break During WordPress or Drupal Updates and How to Fix Them Quickly

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A Brief Guide to Functional Testing, Types & Examples

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Top Visual Regressions that You Can Spot with and without Automated Testing

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A photo that’s too much to the left, the wrong fonts, a missing button -- these are things that you can spot at a simple glance. But not all visual bugs are that easy to catch, especially not with the naked (or untrained eye).

This is where automated visual regression tools like Diffy come into play. They can help you spot elusive visual bugs easily, even if you have to test hundreds of pages.

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