• (cs) in reply to Vollhorst
    Vollhorst:
    Animated gifs are a stupid idea because at least most people I know have them deactivated.

    What's it like back in the 90s? Hey we even have cookies now you know.

  • (cs) in reply to bjolling
    bjolling:
    Pim:
    OK, but seriously now. Nobody has yet commented on the fact that GIF animation can be switched off in most browsers, and that this program may be an attempt to circumvent that. GIF animation, even in a browser that has it switched off.
    A user that deliberately has turned off GIF animation might not like circumventions so IMO it's still a bad idea.

    A møøse once bit my sister ...

    Well, I never met a website designer who cared about what the user might like. Website designers care about getting their message across.
  • (cs)

    <breaks__1990s_cascadefuck/>

    sota:
    That's all fine and dandy, but what I really want to know is the past tense form for "I can go."
    I can have went. Obviously.
  • Ditto (unregistered)

    So wait .. are we finally onto something that'll replace all those crappy .mpg and .wmv files!! FINALLY! WOOHOOO!! (Man, those things were taking up soo much disk space .. ) :\

  • NeoMojo (unregistered) in reply to MrBester
    MrBester:
    <breaks__1990s_cascadefuck/>
    sota:
    That's all fine and dandy, but what I really want to know is the past tense form for "I can go."
    I can have went. Obviously.
    I can goad.
  • illtiz (unregistered) in reply to Waldo
    Waldo:
    animFrame = animFrame % 6 + 1;

    So in javascript this is the way to perform a loop?

    No. Definitely not.

  • (cs)
    wooohoo:
    where:
    is:
    the:
    Irish:
    Girl:
    when:
    you:
    need:
    her:
    ?:
    wooohoo:
    woohoo:
    woohoo:
    woohoo:
    woohoo:
    woohoo:
    woohoo:
    Ham9ish:
    stiggy:
    Martin:
    hatterson:
    ContraCorners:
    hatterson:
    D C Ross:
    ContraCorners:
    Jon:
    ContraCorners:
    Anon:
    hatterson:
    ContraCorners:
    brrr:
    Archimidas:
    notromda:
    illtiz:
    cdosrun:
    illtiz:
    Bobbo:
    illtiz:
    LightStyx:
    Now for the comment...

    here's an easy way around that... just create the gif animation in GIMP as one file then stick it in there. Why would one need programming to animate a gif when they themselves are already animated?

    But kudos on being Fist.

    Hang on, doesn't it say that in the article?

    Come to think of it, the article mentions the same thing already.

    Check out http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx for an easy alternative to animated GIFs

    Thanks! Also, more useful information and links can be found at http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx

    Be careful with the code in that link - the whole thing could have been replaced by an animated gif.

    Hey did you know there's an easy way around that? just create the gif animation in GIMP as one file then stick it in there. Why would one need programming to animate a gif when they themselves are already animated?

    For a complete story, you should check out http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=2#252413.
    Isn't there a way to create an GIF that's already animated?
    I think http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=2#252416 quotes some articles that explain it
    You know what would be really funny? If people keep nesting quotes over and over, repeating the same comments. Hilarious.
    Nah, that would be stupid.
    If you want to see stupid try this: http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=2

    That one's not a stupid as http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=2#252425.

    If only there was an xkcd comic about this.
    I think someone already was looking into this. Check it out: http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=2#252426

    I don't understand, hatterson. Your link doesn't bring me to xkcd.

    You're right, but it does link to a post where someone was talking about xkcd in reference to animating gifs.

    That reminds me of a project of mine. I was thinking of taking some xkcd comics, converting them to gifs and then stringing them together to make a sort of animated slide show. I found some sample code here http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx What do you think?

    Maybe you could use an animated gif for that? These are gifs which contain embeded javascript code that animates the image. I recommend GIMP as the best editor to write that code.

    That's a great idea. Do you have a link where I could read more?

    There is a video about it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z93Z1v5dypE

    woo hoo

    Bet you were expecting to find her right here, weren't ya?

    one polite request for anyone who thinks mindlessly quoting huge stacks of previous commenters is pure hilarity...

    SHUT UP

    Seriously, you're all being stupid. Try being funny. Or go send "please remove me from this list" to a few mailing lists or something.

  • aBrase (unregistered)
    marius:
    Firefox can't predict the report will take a while to load, the incoming page with the report should output a layer with a loading image and then start generating the report and then dumping it to the user.

    Firefox can't be predicting the reporting will be taking a while to be loading, the incoming page having the reporting should be outputing layering having a loading image and then starting generating the reporting and then dumping it to the using thing.

    FTFY

  • (cs) in reply to kastein
    kastein:
    wooohoo:
    where:
    is:
    the:
    Irish:
    Girl:
    when:
    you:
    need:
    her:
    ?:
    wooohoo:
    woohoo:
    woohoo:
    woohoo:
    woohoo:
    woohoo:
    woohoo:
    Ham9ish:
    stiggy:
    Martin:
    hatterson:
    ContraCorners:
    hatterson:
    D C Ross:
    ContraCorners:
    Jon:
    ContraCorners:
    Anon:
    hatterson:
    ContraCorners:
    brrr:
    Archimidas:
    notromda:
    illtiz:
    cdosrun:
    illtiz:
    Bobbo:
    illtiz:
    LightStyx:
    Now for the comment...

    here's an easy way around that... just create the gif animation in GIMP as one file then stick it in there. Why would one need programming to animate a gif when they themselves are already animated?

    But kudos on being Fist.

    Hang on, doesn't it say that in the article?

    Come to think of it, the article mentions the same thing already.

    Check out http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx for an easy alternative to animated GIFs

    Thanks! Also, more useful information and links can be found at http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx

    Be careful with the code in that link - the whole thing could have been replaced by an animated gif.

    Hey did you know there's an easy way around that? just create the gif animation in GIMP as one file then stick it in there. Why would one need programming to animate a gif when they themselves are already animated?

    For a complete story, you should check out http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=2#252413.
    Isn't there a way to create an GIF that's already animated?
    I think http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=2#252416 quotes some articles that explain it
    You know what would be really funny? If people keep nesting quotes over and over, repeating the same comments. Hilarious.
    Nah, that would be stupid.
    If you want to see stupid try this: http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=2

    That one's not a stupid as http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=2#252425.

    If only there was an xkcd comic about this.
    I think someone already was looking into this. Check it out: http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=2#252426

    I don't understand, hatterson. Your link doesn't bring me to xkcd.

    You're right, but it does link to a post where someone was talking about xkcd in reference to animating gifs.

    That reminds me of a project of mine. I was thinking of taking some xkcd comics, converting them to gifs and then stringing them together to make a sort of animated slide show. I found some sample code here http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx What do you think?

    Maybe you could use an animated gif for that? These are gifs which contain embeded javascript code that animates the image. I recommend GIMP as the best editor to write that code.

    That's a great idea. Do you have a link where I could read more?

    There is a video about it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z93Z1v5dypE

    woo hoo

    Bet you were expecting to find her right here, weren't ya?

    one polite request for anyone who thinks mindlessly quoting huge stacks of previous commenters is pure hilarity...

    SHUT UP

    Seriously, you're all being stupid. Try being funny. Or go send "please remove me from this list" to a few mailing lists or something.

    Good point. It can get out of control quickly.

    See http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=3

    Seriously, wtf did you think would happen when you didn't bother to trim the quotes from your comment?

  • Wizard Stan (unregistered)

    Guys! I need help! I went to about:config and set image.animation_mode to "none" (because animated images are annoying), and disabled flash (because the only thing it's ever used for is advertisements), but for some reason I'm still seeing this spinning logo thing. HELP!

    *facetious post. I'm not actually having any problems.

  • Sn33zingPanda (unregistered) in reply to LightStyx
    LightStyx:
    ... it's to be the 1st poser, right?

    FTFY

  • (cs) in reply to cdosrun
    cdosrun:
    kastein:
    wooohoo:
    where:
    is:
    the:
    Irish:
    Girl:
    when:
    you:
    need:
    her:
    ?:
    wooohoo:
    woohoo:
    woohoo:
    woohoo:
    woohoo:
    woohoo:
    woohoo:
    Ham9ish:
    stiggy:
    Martin:
    hatterson:
    ContraCorners:
    hatterson:
    D C Ross:
    ContraCorners:
    Jon:
    ContraCorners:
    Anon:
    hatterson:
    ContraCorners:
    brrr:
    Archimidas:
    notromda:
    illtiz:
    cdosrun:
    illtiz:
    Bobbo:
    illtiz:
    LightStyx:
    Now for the comment...

    here's an easy way around that... just create the gif animation in GIMP as one file then stick it in there. Why would one need programming to animate a gif when they themselves are already animated?

    But kudos on being Fist.

    Hang on, doesn't it say that in the article?

    Come to think of it, the article mentions the same thing already.

    Check out http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx for an easy alternative to animated GIFs

    Thanks! Also, more useful information and links can be found at http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx

    Be careful with the code in that link - the whole thing could have been replaced by an animated gif.

    Hey did you know there's an easy way around that? just create the gif animation in GIMP as one file then stick it in there. Why would one need programming to animate a gif when they themselves are already animated?

    For a complete story, you should check out http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=2#252413.
    Isn't there a way to create an GIF that's already animated?
    I think http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=2#252416 quotes some articles that explain it
    You know what would be really funny? If people keep nesting quotes over and over, repeating the same comments. Hilarious.
    Nah, that would be stupid.
    If you want to see stupid try this: http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=2

    That one's not a stupid as http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=2#252425.

    If only there was an xkcd comic about this.
    I think someone already was looking into this. Check it out: http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=2#252426

    I don't understand, hatterson. Your link doesn't bring me to xkcd.

    You're right, but it does link to a post where someone was talking about xkcd in reference to animating gifs.

    That reminds me of a project of mine. I was thinking of taking some xkcd comics, converting them to gifs and then stringing them together to make a sort of animated slide show. I found some sample code here http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx What do you think?

    Maybe you could use an animated gif for that? These are gifs which contain embeded javascript code that animates the image. I recommend GIMP as the best editor to write that code.

    That's a great idea. Do you have a link where I could read more?

    There is a video about it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z93Z1v5dypE

    woo hoo

    Bet you were expecting to find her right here, weren't ya?

    one polite request for anyone who thinks mindlessly quoting huge stacks of previous commenters is pure hilarity...

    SHUT UP

    Seriously, you're all being stupid. Try being funny. Or go send "please remove me from this list" to a few mailing lists or something.

    Good point. It can get out of control quickly.

    See http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=3

    Seriously, wtf did you think would happen when you didn't bother to trim the quotes from your comment?

    You know, it's actually funny that when I suggested GIMP, I got lynched.... That made me put on my sadfaic >:*(

  • (cs) in reply to kaspar
    kaspar:
    iframe, with meta refresh tag and some serverside mechanism to determine the next picture :).

    No, the server just serves a different picture every 1/5 of a second, and you refresh the hell out of the page to reduce flicker. This is the way TVs work, and they have no problems, right?

  • (cs) in reply to Vollhorst
    Vollhorst:
    I would "solve" it that way:

    Create a image that is larger than the image that should be displayed. Just put all six images below each other. Put it as background of that div and just manipulate the offset of the background over time. That way you have no extra loading time, no problem with ... well... anything. You can even let it scroll smothly. ;)

    In the end: Animated gifs are a stupid idea because at least most people I know have them deactivated.

    well, as most 'now loading' animations tend to be circling around, wouldn't it be easier to just create a gif with transparent background and make that go round? :P

  • Little Bobby --> Drop Animated Gifs (unregistered) in reply to Brad
    Brad:
    M C Spanner:
    HVS:
    Actually, there is a perfectly good reason to do this. If you have a "report running" page that has been submitted, Firefox will often stop all running animations on the page. This is not a problem in IE. By doing it with javascript, it avoids this problem.

    or use the animated gif and re-set the source of the image on submit and it'll keep going

    As someone else asked, it was IE6 that would lock animations, and I'm all but certain the above approach would not work.

    I had to make a modification to an app that did all this as a hack (this was way pre-ajax):

    • The user clicks submit
    • The client sets the gif image (but it doesn't start animating).
    • A server handler starts an asynch process and returns a javascript handler for when the process finishes.
    • Now the image on the client starts animating.
    • The client javascript handler fires when the asynch process finishes and the gif is hidden.

    Today's wtf is much better (with or w/o the rafactorings).

    ummm.... pls tell me you're not saying ie6 is way pre-ajax, right? paragraph a, it's completely unrelated to paragraph b, right? cuz ajax has been around by various names since, oh... '97? '98?

  • MrEs (Denis Vujicic) (unregistered) in reply to JG
    JG:
    There seems to be more WTF's in the comments then there were in the article :S
    Must be a trick wtf where the REAL wtf is not in the article but in the comments... wtf

    Happy April fools :\

  • urbansurgery (unregistered) in reply to Jim

    unless of course they want an animated gif with a colour palette over time greater than that for a single anim gif file?

    that would make it an improbable but possible nonWTF

  • (cs) in reply to cdosrun
    cdosrun:
    kastein:
    wooohoo:
    where:
    is:
    the:
    Irish:
    Girl:
    when:
    you:
    need:
    her:
    ?:
    wooohoo:
    woohoo:
    woohoo:
    woohoo:
    woohoo:
    woohoo:
    woohoo:
    Ham9ish:
    stiggy:
    Martin:
    hatterson:
    ContraCorners:
    hatterson:
    D C Ross:
    ContraCorners:
    Jon:
    ContraCorners:
    Anon:
    hatterson:
    ContraCorners:
    brrr:
    Archimidas:
    notromda:
    illtiz:
    cdosrun:
    illtiz:
    Bobbo:
    illtiz:
    LightStyx:
    Now for the comment...

    here's an easy way around that... just create the gif animation in GIMP as one file then stick it in there. Why would one need programming to animate a gif when they themselves are already animated?

    But kudos on being Fist.

    Hang on, doesn't it say that in the article?

    Come to think of it, the article mentions the same thing already.

    Check out http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx for an easy alternative to animated GIFs

    Thanks! Also, more useful information and links can be found at http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx

    Be careful with the code in that link - the whole thing could have been replaced by an animated gif.

    Hey did you know there's an easy way around that? just create the gif animation in GIMP as one file then stick it in there. Why would one need programming to animate a gif when they themselves are already animated?

    For a complete story, you should check out http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=2#252413.
    Isn't there a way to create an GIF that's already animated?
    I think http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=2#252416 quotes some articles that explain it
    You know what would be really funny? If people keep nesting quotes over and over, repeating the same comments. Hilarious.
    Nah, that would be stupid.
    If you want to see stupid try this: http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=2

    That one's not a stupid as http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=2#252425.

    If only there was an xkcd comic about this.
    I think someone already was looking into this. Check it out: http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=2#252426

    I don't understand, hatterson. Your link doesn't bring me to xkcd.

    You're right, but it does link to a post where someone was talking about xkcd in reference to animating gifs.

    That reminds me of a project of mine. I was thinking of taking some xkcd comics, converting them to gifs and then stringing them together to make a sort of animated slide show. I found some sample code here http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx What do you think?

    Maybe you could use an animated gif for that? These are gifs which contain embeded javascript code that animates the image. I recommend GIMP as the best editor to write that code.

    That's a great idea. Do you have a link where I could read more?

    There is a video about it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z93Z1v5dypE

    woo hoo

    Bet you were expecting to find her right here, weren't ya?

    one polite request for anyone who thinks mindlessly quoting huge stacks of previous commenters is pure hilarity...

    SHUT UP

    Seriously, you're all being stupid. Try being funny. Or go send "please remove me from this list" to a few mailing lists or something.

    Good point. It can get out of control quickly.

    See http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Technically,-Its-Still-GIF-Animation.aspx?pg=3

    Seriously, wtf did you think would happen when you didn't bother to trim the quotes from your comment?

    Have you ever been a captive audience to a "please remove me from this list" mail cascade-o-failure? everyone does that when yelling at people on those, therefore I did. It wouldn't seem genuine enough without it ;)

  • (cs) in reply to LightStyx
    LightStyx:
    First...

    huh... first... what? why did you hit the submit button after typing one word? COMPLETE YOUR SENTENCE PLEASE!

  • Cow orker (unregistered)
    wooohoo:
    I missed the point.
    FTFY
  • M. (unregistered) in reply to illvm

    illvm is spot on here. All other commenters and also the submitter seem to think animated gifs are working universally.

    Guess what - they aren't. The author was a few steps ahead in real life coding experience of most of you.

  • anonymous (unregistered)

    Pressing Esc stops all animated gifs from playing. If Javascript adds new animated gif images to the page, those won't start playing either; they'll just be stuck on the first frame.

    Somebody who hit Esc five days ago when an e-mail was taking too long to load isn't going to realize that's why all the animated smileys on Google Chat have stopped working. The Javascript hack ensures that they animate the way they're supposed to, so that they don't have to completely reload the page just because they pressed Esc at some point.

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