Re: Animated GIFS

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3 total messages Started by Will Sun, 09 Mar 1997 00:00

#568

Author: Will
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 00:00

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 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 :-)

>
>> I use CAB 1.5 with MAGIC 5 and I have a rather cool mailbox which
>> writes, seals and posts a letter, (see my home page ) and it is
>> rather good, if a little flickery,
>
>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.

The world is *moving* on n'est ce pas ?

>
>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.

>> __
>[overly long 12 line sig snipped].

:-(

>
>4 lines are the generally accepted maximum sig length, and the correct
>signature separator is '-- '.
>

Pity Oasis 1.35 provides underscores then :-(

Cheers,

Will.
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Re: Animated GIFS

#571

Author: Rich Tietjens
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 00:00

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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.

Try to be the best of whatever you are, even if what you are is no good. 
Rich Tietjens aka Captain Blade     | My opinions reflect
atari@teleport.com                  | my personal position
GRUNT Computing - Support for       | only and probably
Atari users worldwide               | horrify my employers.

Re: Animated GIFS

#575

Author: Paul Civati
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 00:00

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In article <857937364_OASIS_@lyneside.demon.co.uk>,
	will@lyneside.demon.co.uk (Will) writes:

>>Nope, only under netscape.
> Didn't know one could run Netscape on an Atari :-)

Well, there's my point.  If you want your pages to be viewed by as
wide a audience as possible then you should design them so they can
be.  Whether that is on an Atari, a Mac, a PC, a unix box or last
but by no means least, Lynx for text only based readers.

>>4 lines are the generally accepted maximum sig length, and the correct
>>signature separator is '-- '.
> Pity Oasis 1.35 provides underscores then :-(

Rather annoyingly, neither does it provide References:.

-Paul-

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