21423 - n-loop animated gifs on mouseover only run the first time mousover-event is triggered

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 17126

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[Marc]

when changing the image-src on a mousover with a 0-loop gif animated gif,
wverything works fine. normally the gif should (IMHO) be started again on each
mouseover which is triggered. but it only works the first time.

May also occur with n-looping gifs.

Check the URL to see it yourself.

Comment 1

[Michael Lowe]

DOM?

Comment 2

[Marc]

Attachment: Testcase (simplified) w/ 2 images and 1 html-file

Comment 3

[Marc]

Sure it's the DOM (level 0)...
Hopefully my testcase is ok - this is my first, so please drop me a note if I
didn't made it up right :-)
Removed URL as everything is in the testcase-file now...

Comment 4

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Bulk moving [testcase] code to new testcase keyword. Sorry for the spam!

Comment 5

[vidur (gone)]

Currently we don't reload an image when the image.src property is set to the 
current value. As a result the animation isn't restarted.

Comment 6

[leger]

Updating QA Contact.

Comment 7

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

This bug has been marked "future" because the original netscape engineer working
on this is over-burdened. If you feel this is an error, that you or another
known resource will be working on this bug, or if it blocks your work in some
way -- please attach your concern to the bug for reconsideration.

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

You could work around this by having the image under two separate filenames and 
alternating onMouseOver.

Gerv

Comment 9

[Aaron Kaluszka]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17126 ***

Comment 10

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified duplicate