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GIF Animations

Eegads, no! Of course, I haven't seen avatars here ever since the positioning was changed years ago as they are not properly centered anymore and that bugged me, and was distracting, so I used I See People to turn off avatars and got rid of mine also at that time.

I have ALL gif animation PERMANENTLY TURNED OFF on ALL sites through the Proxomitron. Animation can trigger migraines and is extremely distracting and irritating. If I do wish (and rarely is this the case) to see animated gifs I can easily uncheck that setting in Proxo and see the animation and then recheck it.

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Just out of curiosity here - if you're (still) using Proxo to customize the website experience - and you have all animations "off" - why do you care?

Not suggesting you're not entitled to voice your opinion - but it seems that you've got "no dog in this hunt" ?
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it's a pain in the ass to have to click an image to see it animated. and unless someone says the image they posted in an animated gif then most people will likely miss that it is animated.

this is the only site i know that doesn't have gifs animate as posted. it shouldnt be a bandwidth issue anymore. if you're still on dialup and animated gifs take forever to load then i'd say it's time to get with the 21st century.

I visit the site from my HTC Thunderbolt on Verizon quite frequently. And I'm not in an LTE area so it's only on 3G. I have no problems with site load times even on a page full of images. As with the people still on dialup, maybe those mobile users who experience issues should get with the times and get a newer device and more reliable carrier.

This could easily be argued the other way. Maybe since there are apparently so many dialup users and mobile users with inferior hardware/carrier we should just outlaw posting images completely so that it doesn't degrade their experience.

Let's not turn this into a carrier or hardware debate.. I'm simply pointing out caveats of the original suggestion.

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I was under the impression that large GIFs (wider than 600px) are not animated because they're large--and, therefore, thumb-nailed (as is done with other large images), not because they're animated GIFs. It might be useful, though, for the site to add a watermark/overlay/legend to the JPGs ("click to animate" or something) to indicate that the larger image isn't merely larger but also animated.
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Previous request »Size increase for animated gifs in post....

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my phone does not animate any gifs. Anyway, this site has a text only version and there are techniques for stripping down webpages so they load faster on handheld / low bandwidth devices.
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Yep. In Fx about:config set to:

image.animation_mode;none

You don't need the Proxomitron to stop that god awful animation. It is soooo childish! And extremely irritating and distracting.

ALL browsers allow you to disable gif animation. If it is so great and so extremely desired on web sites then why do the browsers go to great lengths to allow you to disable it entirely, or allow only one loop, etc?
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reply to Mele20
How many add-ons do you run to stop certain aspects of the net?

Proxomitron was designed to run under Windows 95?? Wow.

Pretty sure that browser technology can handle most of what you're looking for these days.

I wouldn't normally even ask, but since you gave such a verbose response, I have to agree with dbmaven and ask, why do you care? It affects you not one iota.
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reply to Koil
The Proxomitron is primarily a SECURITY application. I use an OUTSTANDING config set from Sidki which was released to public Proxo in Oct 2010. How is that 1995? I think you should educate yourself about something before ignorantly sounding off and making yourself look stupid. (I also have several filters written in the PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS. How is that 1995)? You obviously haven't the vaguest understanding of the Proxomitron, how EXTREMELY POWERFUL it is or what it is capable of doing.

Further, you might try to read more carefully. I stated "ALL browsers allow you to disable gif animation." So, why did you say:

"Pretty sure that browser technology can handle most of what you're looking for these days."

I don't think you read my post!

I don't want to see the web deteriorate as you and the OP obviously do. Thus, I have every right to voice my opinion. Further, if you think I was "verbose" that suggests additional evidence of your reading comprehension/lack of attention problem which is probably why excessive gif animation appeals to you and the OP.
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reply to Mele20

Where did you get the idea that I don't like gifs? I like them. I don't like animated gifs though. The default for 'image.animation_mode' is not to "allow gifs to display" rather it is to "allow ANIMATED gifs to display". If you turn off the animation that doesn't mean the gif does not display which is what is sounds like you think happens. The gif is just displayed without the animation. Fx also allows you to keep gif animation but limit the number of loops to one, two, etc. We've had several discussions at this site about it over the years and most posters reported that they don't completely turn off gif animation but that they limit it to one or two loops. It is not a small number who alter gif animation configuration in browsers.

Steve Jobs sure believes in NOT allowing Apple users to have Safari operate as they might like. Fx and Opera are unusual as they both believe the user should be able to SOME EXTENT alter their browsers...Fx more so than Opera. Microsoft and Google don't share this opinion that Mozilla and Opera, to a lesser extent, have.
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