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In article <857937364_OASIS_@lyneside.demon.co.uk>, will@lyneside.demon.co.uk 
wrote:
>
> In article <5fug7d$7t@xciv.demon.co.uk>
>  paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati) said:-
>
>>In article <857767830_OASIS_@lyneside.demon.co.uk>,
>>        will@lyneside.demon.co.uk (Will) writes:
>>
>>> Have you all seen animated GIFs in CAB ?
>>
>>Nope, only under netscape.
>
>Didn't know one could run Netscape on an Atari :-)

You could under linux, I think, but who cares?  CAB does animated GIFs - on my 
TT and on my Falcon.

>>Am I the only person to find these little animated icons extremely
>>irritating?  They may look nice but add nothing to the real content
>>of the page IMO.  I thought those horrible little construction logos
>>were nasty, but now there are animated ones.
>>
>>Certainly under netscape all they do is cause contant disk access
>>whilst you're trying to read the real contents of the page.
>
>Well we are not talking about Netscape are we ??
>The images go into memory cache and no disk access is involved, at 
>least not on my *Atari* system.

Actually, they don't flicker or cause undue disk access on a 
properly-configured PC, either - but evidently not everyone knows how to 
properly configure a PC, else I couldn't get paid the obscene amounts of money 
I do for making 'em work right.


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