Re: Gif translates differently in IE3

by jennifer byrne <jen(at)visi.com>

 Date:  Thu, 9 Apr 1998 18:36:20 -0500
 To:  hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
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>Pete wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I recently designed a looping animated black-transparent gif for my web
>design page. It's a 3D text logo with an inverted "watery" reflection.
>It animates perfectly in all versions of Netscape (Including 4.0),
>however, in MSIE 3.02, 1 of the 5 frames seems to be shifted 1 pixel to
>the right, and another seems to be vertically compressed by 1 pixel. In
>all of my other animation programs it works fine. I am not sure if this
>problem occurs in MSIE 4 (Could someone please test?) I am wondering if
>it has something to do with the large palette (99 colours) or the frame
>translations that I coded in Gif Construction Set.
>
>I rendered each of the frames in POVRAY before shrinking them in
>Paintshop 4, assembling them in Gif Construction Set 32, and saving them
>in Animagic 32 (to lose that annoying GifCon text field.)
>
>The gif in question is at Fluid Web Designs: http://Fast.to/Fluid
>(http://members.tripod.com/~fluidweb/fluid.gif). I appreciate any
>criticism on the image or my site in general, whether constructive or
>not!
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Pete Jacobsen
>--------------------------
>
>Hi Pete.
>It looks good in NN4.  The fluid kinda gets distorted, is hard to read as
>it fads back.  Otherwise the water effect looks great!
>jen

. . . let me add that the big logo with fluid in it looks great, but the
smaller one is hard to read-but once you see the bigger one you kinda know
what the little one reads.  Are you confused?  Anyways disregard my comment
before the rest of the site looks great nice layout.
jen

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