Re: Blinking Text, Animated Gifs, and Now Cable Modem!

The animations look just fine to me. (I.E 5 with a modem). BTW, I have used
the dripping blood bar on one of my pages, and yours looks much the same as
mine does, as far as speed goes.

Jami

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Coats" <lcoats(at)gte.net>
To: "C. A. Milton" <camilton(at)hauntedhalloweencastle.com>
Cc: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: Blinking Text, Animated Gifs, and Now Cable Modem!


> C. A. Milton wrote:
>
> > I've read this thread with interest.  Just got a cable modem and have
> > discovered that when viewing many animated gifs (not to mention blinking
> > text) that they twitch and flash at such a pace that they are pretty
much
> > hard to keep your eyes on, and very much a distraction.  My own page has
an
> > animated flaming text gif on it, which now looks horrible on my screen.
> > Sometimes it smooths out and appears ok, but most of the times when I
check
> > out the page it's not something I'd want visitors to see.
> >
> > http://www.hauntedhalloweencastle.com/
> >
> > Caryl
>
>
> That's really strange. I can't imagine how the type of connection could
> possibly affect the rate at which an animated gif runs. It's not as if
> the gif is being continually downloaded over and over to display the
> animation. The gif is downloaded once, and the browser then displays the
> gif, changing the images in the gif at a speed that's specified within
> the gif itself. So once the gif is downloaded, the method that was used
> to download it or the speed of that method should be immaterial.
>
> I'm using a 56k modem. Your flaming gif does run pretty fast, but not
> outrageously so. I presume you're aware that the speed is specified
> within the gif itself, and that you can change the speed using an
> animated gif editor such as the one that comes with Paint Shop Pro (to
> mention just one of many).
>
> I see that you have a couple of other animated gifs lower on the page --
> do they also seem to run faster when you use your cable modem?
>
> If it's just the one gif that's doing this, perhaps it's gotten
> corrupted somehow. You might try uploading a fresh copy.
>
> Larry Coats
>
>

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