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Date Posted: 17:19:41 05/07/03 Wed
Author: Scarecrow
Subject: There's times....
In reply to: Maureen Lycaon 's message, "Comment from a web designer . . ." on 00:18:36 05/07/03 Wed

I know a lot of great artists online who use animation in their banners and post signitures, and it can be quite effective. One of my favorites is Jullie Dillon's which has a picture of her main character, totally stationary for about ten seconds, then...he blinks. It's very subtle and smooth, so you almost miss it, but it's also kind of creepy. That's certainly not the same as all those moving parts that make your eyes hurt while you're trying to read the text, though. I know what you mean.

Scarecrow

>Animated gifs are seldom if ever justified. They're
>fun to make, but not fun for the reader to look at.
>The only use for them that I can think of is in
>banners and on the rare occasion that you want to draw
>attention to something that, for whatever reason, you
>just *can't* have up near the top of the page.
>
>Mozilla has a setting in which you can specify that
>animated gifs will loop forever, once, or never (under
>Preferences->Privacy&Security->Images). I usually keep
>mine set to loop an image only once. It's a great
>comfort when confronted with epilepsy-inducing
>flashing images.

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  • Re: Comment from a web designer . . . -- AW, 23:27:09 05/07/03 Wed
  • Re: Comment from a web designer . . . -- CHaos, 08:17:10 05/08/03 Thu
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