Browser support list

[tsouk]

Browser support list

[chrisantonellis]

this is a good idea, i'll get working on it and add to the docs. thanks for the suggestion!

[tsouk]

Awesome!

The reason I got excited with freezeframe.js is that it seems to support browsers that other libs out there don't. That is Safari. If we are going to use it for a BBC page we would like a list of browsers you know you can support, etc.

Thank you @chrisantonellis !

[chrisantonellis]

Freezeframe is working in current versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari, and I plan to support those browsers and IE from the version where they started supporting the HTML5 Canvas API ( http://caniuse.com/#search=canvas ) That looks like IE9+, almost all version of Chrome and Firefox, and Safari 5+. I also intend on supporting IOS Safari and Android Chrome. I have not done any previous version testing, only current versions.

I also just found bugs in IE 11 IOS Chrome that i'm working on. I'll add the browser support table to the docs ASAP, but i wanted to get you the info sooner!

[tsouk]

Ah, that sounds quite a good list @chrisantonellis !
If on unsupported browsers there is no error, or at least nothing very intrusive, and the GIF doesn't play automatically I think we can use it!
This last one (fallback to no animation) is an accessibility constraint. Animations might be disruptive to some users.

Thank you for this!

[chrisantonellis]

@tsouk currently these are features I would have to add but will be working on this week (browser feature detection and graceful degradation if features are unsupported). There is however no "easy" way to provide a fallback for unsupported browsers where the GIF will not play, as the pausing of the GIF is a result of freezeframe working correctly. I can however figure out a way to specify a "fallback image" per GIF if this is something that would be of use to you. Please let me know! This would provide the functionality you describe.

[tsouk]

The "fallback image" option sounds like a good idea!
Uncontrollable animations are the reason we cannot do GIFs yet. Having a paused fallback gets us over the biggest accessibility concern. When I get some examples going, I will enlist our accessibility experts to look at this, and will give you detailed feedback.

That is, if you want this feature (and probably not much else) to make freezeframe.js a fully accessible GIF library. I believe it is worth it!

[chrisantonellis]

@tsouk this is being actively worked on :) expect updates very soon!

[tsouk]

awesome @chrisantonellis !
I'll spike a prototype for our new website as soon as possible. I'll get the a11y team to approve and might come up with a pull request for you if we need any changes.
(This could have been in the ABC's of motion article if we had it back in August... no worries, we'll get there)

[nickforddev]

Closing because we aren't maintaining 3.x anymore