I tried to upload an animated GIF but all it shows is one frame. How do I get it to animate? Also how can I reduce the size and maintain the animation?
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Jan. 22, 2011 8:37 p.m. carguy123 SuperDork
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Jan. 22, 2011 8:57 p.m. Maroon92 SuperDork
I don't know, but it is screwing up my HTML...
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Jan. 22, 2011 9:14 p.m. madmallard Reader
and its really obnoxiously big and visually disruptive. arent there dimensional limitations?
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Jan. 22, 2011 9:19 p.m. Tom Suddard SonDork
(Full disclaimer, I'm not a web guy; nor do I play one on teh interwebz. This is not advice from anybody that has authoritay)
Yes, there are dimensional limitations. As I remember, if you resize your GIF to be within the restrictions, the animation will work fine. slefain's avatar is a good example of this.
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Jan. 23, 2011 7:30 a.m. Grtechguy SuperDork
yes, you need to shrink it down about 60%
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Jan. 23, 2011 8:15 a.m. 914Driver SuperDork
My avatar is still on a planet six light years away.
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Jan. 23, 2011 8:23 a.m. Marty! Dork
Yeah, I had to resize mine to make it work here. After that all was good in the webz.
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Jan. 23, 2011 10:15 a.m. stuart in mn SuperDork
You need to make it go away.
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Jan. 23, 2011 10:25 a.m. Karl La Follette HalfDork
changed
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Jan. 24, 2011 8:59 p.m. carguy123 SuperDork
resizepic.com resized it but it lost it's animation. I had been able to resize on my puter, it was the animation I wanted to preserve.
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Jan. 25, 2011 6:32 a.m. Grtechguy SuperDork
PM me and I'll resize it for you
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Jan. 25, 2011 7:18 a.m. Tim Baxter SuperDork
animated gifs suck balls, so I set all my browsers to never animate them. I'll never see anything but the first frame of that oh-so-clever animation. I will, however, have a much less annoying web experience without a bunch of distracting moving crap all over.
It's is bad news for less-than-forward-thinking advertisers, though.
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Jan. 25, 2011 8:24 a.m. Woody SuperDork
Oh, Great Tim, please teach me how to de-animate GIF avatars. I would be forever grateful.
People who use animated avatars think that the internet is all about them. They need to understand that it's actually all about me.
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Jan. 25, 2011 8:33 a.m. Rusted_Busted_Spit Dork
I am sorry, but of course it is all about me.
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Jan. 25, 2011 8:49 p.m. Tim Baxter SuperDork
Woody, here's Firefox: http://www.tipstrs.com/tip/14861/Turn-off-animated-GIFs-in-Firefox
Safari has a preference for it. You can also block gifs from loading altogether, which isn't a bad idea, since nobody who really knows what they're doing uses gifs for much of anything anymore. From some forum "Safari -> Block Images and Plugins -> Only Animation.
Blocking downloads gif image can be activated via the menu Safari -> Block Ad / Banners adding a filter value *. gif * (with asterisks)."
Internet Explorer: go to Internet Options < Advanced < Multimedia unselect Play animations in web pages
Chrome doesn't seem to have the ability, but I could be wrong.
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Jan. 25, 2011 9:30 p.m. Dr. Hess SuperDork
As I now realize that SOME people may find my avatar OFFENSIVE, and as OFFENDING people is certainly the LAST thing I would want to do, I have been considering changing my avatar to a more Politically Correct graphic:
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Jan. 25, 2011 10:11 p.m. Chebbie_SB HalfDork
In reply to Dr. Hess:
In all fairness, shouldn't the Toyota gun go full auto spraying bullets everywhere and kill the Toyota man too ? or perhaps it should just be the Toyota guy falling on his own sword ?
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Jan. 25, 2011 10:31 p.m. EastCoastMojo SuperDork
Dr. Hess wrote:
As I now realize that SOME people may find my avatar OFFENSIVE, and as OFFENDING people is certainly the LAST thing I would want to do, but it's still on the list.
I couldn't resist.
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Jan. 26, 2011 8:18 a.m. carguy123 SuperDork
Tim Baxter wrote:
animated gifs suck balls, so I set all my browsers to never animate them. I'll never see anything but the first frame of that oh-so-clever animation. I will, however, have a much less annoying web experience without a bunch of distracting moving crap all over.
It's is bad news for less-than-forward-thinking advertisers, though.
Well Tim that only means you are missing the coolest animated GIF on the forum!
Thanx Grtechguy for resizing it for me and keeping the animation.
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Jan. 26, 2011 1:27 p.m. Salanis SuperDork
carguy123 wrote:
Well Tim that only means you are missing the coolest animated GIF on the forum!
Which is kind of like being the thinnest kid at fat camp.
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Jan. 26, 2011 1:32 p.m. bravenrace SuperDork
Dr. Hess wrote:
As I now realize that SOME people may find my avatar OFFENSIVE, and as OFFENDING people is certainly the LAST thing I would want to do, I have been considering changing my avatar to a more Politically Correct graphic:
You need help, dood. Your fixation with Honda can't be healthy.
