Animated gif in safari

How do I download an animated gif in Safari 7.0? All I get is the first frame of the animation.

I also noticed this today, and it seems that for some reason the frame rate of animated GIFs is limited to 10 frames per second, or a minimum delay of 100msec per frame. This animation should loop every second: http://www.dr-lex.be/tmp/Rotation1Sec.gif
In Firefox it behaves correctly, but if you time it in Safari, you'll see that it takes 5 seconds per loop, because it has 50 frames.
By the way, QuickTime Player can also play GIF animations and it plays them at the correct speed.
It appears this bug is not in Safari itself, but somewhere deeper in some framework. The bug ID is 5815212.

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Anyhad had any success at having animated gif files animating in Keynote 2? Mine doesn't seem to want to animate. Thx!

Another thing, did you get your animated GIF from online or from a collection on CD/DVD? If you just drag and drop an animated GIF from Safari, it will usually only save the starting image. You have to control-click (or right-click) and Save File As to save all parts of an animated GIF you download from the web. Off of a CD/DVD, there shouldn't be any such problem, though.
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I made an animated gif through the animation option in Photoshop (used to use Image Ready, but now use photoshop/animation view). Anyway, it is a super simple gif with eight frames set to loop twice. When saved and then put into an HTML page, it loops twice on a PC using IE, and on a Mac, it plays correctly using Firefox, but in Safari it only plays once. As an experiment, I set it to play once and it "behaves" correctly on all browsers. Similarly, if I set it to play "forever" -- it behaves as expected on all browsers. BUT, any choice of number of loops cause inconsistency. In Safari, it always plays one less time than it was "programmed" to play. Does anybody have any advice on this?
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I believe there is a way to have two versions of say the gif run the main one and one with three lops and tell you server not to load the first one if it detects safari but to load the second one with the right argument.
Or try the new Safari 4 just released today.

Animated gif won't work in safari

I put an animated gif in iWeb and it runs fine in the site in Windows IE 7 and Firefox 3.5, and on my Mac in Firefox, But you can just see the initial frame in Safari.
Actually I put two on there, the little flag works (has a transparent layer over it to make it clickable), but the bigger one, with 13 layers, does not.
Is there something in Safari that I need to set?
http://www.widman.biz/Corvair/English/English.html

I've been having the same issue. gifs from the web load fine in firefox, but i safari they take forever.
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I am frequenting site and have noticed animated gifs not animating properly on this page. The site is http://www.woot.com
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There are two "whirly lights" on each side of a progress bar under the item currently for sale. The left light starts to animate while the page is loading but stops while the right light continues its animation.
This particular site may usually only uses these images every once in a while so if no one checks this in the next couple days the images will no longer be there. I created a web archive the site which I could send if this page does go away. The issue does not happen in Firefox or Internet Explorer.

Hi and Welcome to Apple Discussions
I get the same effect as you in Safari. Loaded with no problem in Firefox. Page does have coding errors, which can lead to inaccuracies in how the page is rendered. Safari is much more strict about correct coding than Firefox, adhering to web standards set out by Web Standards Project.

Safari 4: Problems with animated GIF

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since I've updated to Mac OS X 10.6 my Safari 4.0.3 has Problems with some animated GIF.
Some of these smileys look strange.
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HI,
Apparently you aren't alone.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10059219&#10059219
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I have a website with a page-loading animated gif, which stutters badly the first time a page is loaded. In subsequent re-loadings of the page the gif animation is smooth. This problem only occurs in Safari 7.0.1, not other browsers. In fact before I upgraded to Mavericks, it worked fine on Safari, too (Mountain Lion). Please help.

I also noticed this today, and it seems that for some reason the frame rate of animated GIFs is limited to 10 frames per second, or a minimum delay of 100msec per frame. This animation should loop every second: http://www.dr-lex.be/tmp/Rotation1Sec.gif
In Firefox it behaves correctly, but if you time it in Safari, you'll see that it takes 5 seconds per loop, because it has 50 frames.
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As far as I can tell, this is constant across all WebKit browsers. Basically take any animated gif (), and open it side by side in Safari and some other browser like Firefox or Opera, and it will always play much more smoothly in the other browser.
I can't seem to find anything about this on google right now, and it's driving me nuts. Anyone know anything?
Also how do I make this forum not show my real name...
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As far as I can tell, this is constant across all WebKit browsers. Basically take any animated gif (), and open it side by side in Safari and some other browser like Firefox or Opera, and it will always play much more smoothly in the other browser.
I can't seem to find anything about this on google right now, and it's driving me nuts. Anyone know anything?
Also how do I make this forum not show my real name...
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the preference keys mentioned in webkit builds & within the safari app seem not to work, but this extension
https://github.com/matsadler/deanimator appears useful and is obviously easy to remove if it causes any problems. Works well here, in brief testing - but see the limitations

Safari corrupt transparency in animated GIFs

I am running Safari 4.0.4 under Snow Leopard 10.6.2 on an iMac (mid-2007) and am having issues with animated gifs on websites displaying with fringes of mis-coloured pixels where they should be transparent.
Annoyingly, the issues are intermittent. I can find a bad GIF, see mis-coloured pixels, refresh the cache and sometimes it will be fine, sometimes it will show mis-coloured pixels again but in different places and colours.
Here are two screenshots of the issue. I have cropped the GIF, zoomed it 200% and saved it static for you to see the problem.
Example 1 : http://www.dcoffey.co.uk/images/BadGif1.jpg
This was supposed to be an animated GIF of the Scottish flag and about every 2s (which is the length of the animation), the border of mis-coloured pixels flashes off then back again.
Example 2 : http://www.dcoffey.co.uk/images/BadGif2.jpg
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HI Daniel,
Run the Apple Hardware Test from your iMac install disc to make sure it's not a video or graphics card problem.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509
If everything is ok there boot from your install disc and run Disk Utility to make sure there aren't any errors on the the startup disk.
Insert your install disk and Restart, holding down the "C" key until grey Apple appears.
Go to Installer menu and launch Disk Utility.
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in the left panel.
Select First Aid in the Main panel.
*(Check S.M.A.R.T Status of HDD at the bottom of right panel. It should say: Verified)*
Click Repair Disk on the bottom right.
If DU reports disk does not need repairs quit DU and restart.
If DU reports errors Repair again and again until DU reports disk is repaired.
When you are finished with DU, from the Menu Bar, select Utilities/Startup Manager.
Select your start up disk and click Restart
While you have the Disk Utility window open, look at the bottom of the window. Where you see Capacity and Available. *Make sure there is always 10% to 15% free disk space*
From the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari / Reset Safari. Select the top 5 buttons and click Reset.
Go here for trouble shooting 3rd party plugins or input managers which might be causing the problem.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1594
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Safari and animated .gifs

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Yeah, me too here.
I Had to force-quit Safari 4.0 for the first time also, with the spinning pizza ball.
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That page is dangerous, some bad coding there, for sure.
I have been to many other pages, with flash and many with animated gif's and have had no problems what so ever.
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Safari 4.0.X and Animated GIFs

I have a web site that makes use of animated GIFs that I've created with Adobe Photoshop (7 and more recently CS3). They worked fine when I viewed them with earlier versions of Safari, but not with Safari 4.0.X (i.e., any vers. 4 issued so far including 4.0.3). They either change after a long delay (60 sec. instead of designed 5 sec.) or not at all.
Other browsers seem not to have this problem, but I haven't tried them all.
In trying to solve this problem I've discovered some interesting things:
1. When I create an HTML page using Dreamweaver on my desktop, add an animated GIF, and open it with Safari 4.0.X the GIF animates as designed,
2. When I access a page from my web site the GIF doesn't animate as described above. However, if I close that page and access it again, the GIF animates, presumably because I'm viewing the cached page on my computer.
3. Animated GIFs on other sites seem to work (maybe they didn't use Photoshop?).
4. I sent a Bug Report to Apple on vers 4.0.1 but the problem is still there on 4.0.3
My question is why the different behavior in 1. and 2. above, and why hasn't Apple fixed this problem that seems to be newly created with vers. 4.0.X?

star-fish wrote:
I think the main problem is that your gifs are massive. Animated gifs should be quite small, and not have more than 256 colours. Try resizing one as a test, say 25% of what it currently is and see if that changes anything.
If it doesn't, try making an animation on http://gifworks.com and uploading it to see if that's any faster.
As an aside, you don't need tables on each individual page - just 'center' your text and image. Tables are designed to be used for tabulated data, and create problems for people using screen readers if they aren't.
Also, you may want to remove the . in image and page title names, because those could cause you problems too. Renaming your pages and images so they reflect what's on them more accurately is good for search engines too.
Thanks for your reply, star-fish. I agree my animated GIFs are large, and my page design may not be optimum. However, when I access them with other browsers such as FireFox 3.5.2 and Internet Explorer 5.2, which I did just a few minutes ago, they begin animating in the designed 5 or 6 seconds instead of 50 to 60 secs or more with Safari 4.0.3. Also, they animated in the designed time with Safari 3. So, something is different about Safari 4.0.X, either intentionally or unintentionally.

Safari Animated Gif problem

Hi,
I'm having a little problem, I have a gif, that only has one play and doesn't loop, If I load the page there is no problem i does the animation, if i then refresh the page it doesn't play the animation only leaves it on the final frame, the same happens if i go to another page in the site that has the same animated gif on it.
I'm hoping its just a setting in the css or html that can tell it to load gif animation again but that the moment its just confusing me.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, carta mundi-
CSS Filters are currently only supported by WebKit browsers, and Firefox is not a WebKit browser.
Hope that helps,
-Elaine

Animated GIF broken on iPhone, iPad Safari

[This is a cross-post with the using iPhone forum https://discussions.apple.com/message/17908717#17908717 ]
I develop a web site and I use animated GIFs. They used to work fine on both iPhone and iPad, but now they're broken. The animation plays but one of the frames plays with the center of the image somewhat transparent so the background color shows through. This is under iOS 5.1. Is this a known bug or limitation and is there a fix?
Thanks.

Thanks! You'll get an email when the bug is ready to verify in a public build (either a developer seed if you have access, or a GM build), but I can't comment on when that might be. You may add additional comments to the bug at any time by logging back into <https://bugreport.apple.com/>.
Since this apparently doesn't occur on every animated GIF image, the only suggestion for a workaround that I have is to try a different program (on your Mac or PC) to generate the GIF, or use a different program to post-process the GIF to see if that fixes the issue.

Keynote 3: Transparent Animated GIF Problems

I've been trying to get an animated GIF with a transparent background to run in Keynote, but it's giving some disastrous results.
I produce the animation by rendering the frames as PNG (with alpha channel) in MegaPOV 1.2.1. Then I use the convert utility from ImageMagick 6.2.9 to make them into an animated GIF.
When I drop the animated GIF into Keynote 3.0.2, the first frame shows fine (with transparency and all). But when I animate it, the background goes red (the main color in this particular movie) and some trace of the previous frames stays. It seems like:
1. Rather than displaying the GIF frame-by-frame, each frame is getting layered onto the previous frames.
2. Keynote doesn't like the alpha channel for some reason.
Problem 1 is also present if I open the GIF in Preview (is that supposed to be the correct behavior of an animated GIF?). Problem 2 seems to be Keynote-specific.
Any suggestions for a work-around on this? The animated GIFs work fine if rendered without the alpha channel, but it'd look so much better with transparency!
iMac 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac OS X (10.4.9)

MegaPOV doesn't have a GIF output option. The choices are PNG, Targa, PPM, and hdr (not familiar with that last one). I don't know if PPM even has alpha-capability.
So in some way, I have to convert PNG to GIF. The tools I have to do this are ImageMagick and Gimp. I tried them both, then viewed the results using several programs. Results are tabulated below -- (1) means that problem 1 from above was apparent (ie, parts of the previous frames were visible under the current frame); (2) means that problem 2 was visible (ie, the transparent parts took on some background color).
If I didn't know how to change the default white background in the program, I couldn't tell whether problem (2) occurred, since the movie made with Gimp had a white background in Keynote.
Using ImageMagick 6.2.9 to convert PNG->GIF and animate GIF:
* viewing with Safari 2.0.4 : (1), can't tell for (2)
* viewing with Preview 3.0.9 : (1), can't tell for (2)
* viewing with Firefox 2.0.0.3 : (1)
* viewing with Keynote 3.0.2 : (1), (2) -- alpha goes red
Using Gimp 2.2.11 to convert PNG->GIF and animate GIF:
* viewing with Safari : (1), can't tell for (2)
* viewing with Preview : (1), can't tell for (2)
* viewing with Firefox : (1)
* viewing with Keynote : (1), (2) -- alpha goes white
I only converted the first few frames using Gimp, since I was doing it by hand.
All of this makes me wonder whether I'm dreaming the impossible, since problem (1) is universally present. It also makes me pretty sure that problem (2) is Keynote-specific.
If there are any other tools that will convert/animate GIFs on a modern Mac, I'd love to hear about them. My UNIX-y tools seem to be failing me here. The Mac tools I remember from "back in the day" -- GIFBuilder and GIFConverter -- seem to have been abandoned around the beginning of Mac OS X. GIFBuilder won't even load my files, and GIFConverter still lacks alpha support in PNG.

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