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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'));
}

2 different ways to use Baseline in your VRT

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The Complete Compatibility Testing Guide | Tools, Types & Examples

As technology advances faster than ever, software development needs aren't focused on a single platform anymore. Today, each software is developed with the aim to run cross-platform. This is where the need for compatibility testing comes into play.

For the vast majority of software types, you have to test your website’s/application’s compatibility to run on a wide range of devices. How do you do that? How can you make sure that your users can move seamlessly across devices without their experience being hampered in any way?

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Testing tabs, mobile menu, sliders

A lot web pages right now have some elements that gets activated by clicking on the pages. For example, sliders, or dropdown menu, or tabs. How to take screenshots of those pages too?
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Diffy helps your QA team

to ensure that websites don't get visual bugs