In article < >,
Peter <> wrote:
> In article <dorayme->,
> says...
> > In article
> > <5be3d7c2-a19c-4f38-8433-
> > m>,
> > shajnday <> wrote:
> >
> > > http://www.idocs.com/tags/images/_IMG_LOOP.html
> >
> > Last time I made an animated gif, I used
> >
> > <div><img src="some.gif" alt=""></div>
> >
> > but made the animation to loop once as part of it rather than
> > relying on browsers to use attributes that may not be valid or
> > even work. I recommend this to you.
> >
> > Here is an example of an animation that is under user control:
> >
> > <http://netweaver.com.au/floatHouse/anim/page4anim.php>
> >
> >
> Not sure I understand what you mean by 'under user control'. Is that
> control by the person who created the gif, or control by the person who
> is viewing the gif in their browser?
>
Generally when I use "user" at least, it means the website
visitor. Other bods are the author of the webpage and the maker
of the gif (the latter two may be one and the same person).
[A bod is some or any*body*, generally a bit human (but ETs might
qualify. It depends. I qualify and so does Luigi (R.I.P.)]
> The only control I have, as far as I can tell, is being able to stop the
> animation before it finishes.
There are all sorts of things under your control as a user that
are distinct from anything I as a page maker and gif maker have
under my control.
In building the gif, I can make it so it runs a set number of
times *if the user allows it*. There are parameters for this in
gif building algorithms.
As a page maker I can do this *maybe* via loop attributes in the
img elements (but that is not anything I can be bothered to
research, I suspect it very last century and against the
separation of style from content).
Your control is different. You own the browser and can set
options/preferences. You can make animations not play at all, you
can let them play once and not more, you can let them play any
number of times you want (up to the limit built into them by the
creator). At least in some good browsers you can.
You can also stop them. You can see them as you please as many
times as you like by refreshing your browser if the author or gif
maker has set only once. As in the above example.
--
dorayme
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