[X-Apps] How to make animated gifs?

[Davis Gaffga]

On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 09:01 America/New_York, John B. Thoo wrote:

> On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 05:41 AM, in X-Applications Stephen Hart 
> wrote:
>
>> I don't know if there's a way to make an animated gif play again
>> without reloading the page, but one way or another, I'd give the user
>> the option to see it again.
>
> and Dave Tinker responded:
>
>> Me too. Gifsicle should have a setting for looping the animation.
>
> Yes, there is a way to loop an animation in gifsicle (easy to do), but 
> Stephen H. had said
>
> "A looped
> gif on a page is distracting to the eye, and can become downright
> annoying. Looped animated gifs are also rather dated, like the pages
> with little guys digging to show the page is under construction."
>
> :-)
>
> I have been thinking about how to give the user/viewer an _option_ to 
> view the animation again w/out reloading the page, but I haven't been 
> able to think of a nice way.  Stephen, you suggested asking for 
> suggestions on the GoLive list if I'm not on a Web design list already 
> (which I'm not): do you have an address for the GoLive list?  I may 
> lurk there; I may even post a question if I work up the nerve.
>
> Cheers.
> ---John.
>
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