Animated gif stops on submit

I display an animated gif on form submit
Chrome, safari and opera all continue to animate the gif while the new page is loading.
I use the javascript window.location = 'http://...' to load the new page

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Animated gifs stop randomly... Why?

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I have an application where I have several animated GIFs in the front panel. Sometimes, randomly, some/all of them stop. The animation resumes for a moment when I pass the mouse over one of the halted GIFs, but then it stops again.
Why does this happen? Is there a limit in the amount of animated GIFs in the front panel?
How can I overcome this?
I've thinked about using an ActiveX container like it's said here:
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=282221&query.id=857199#M282221
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Hi Coamin:
Thanks for answering...yes, I know it's a good idea to support the Spanish forums, most of the time I post there, I don't know what happened this time =), ok, switching to Spanish now...
Te comento que estuve realizando unas pruebas y parece ser un problema de repintado. Al principio pense que dado que los GIFs eran muy grandes y estaban reescalados para ser más pequeños, pense que el tamaño estaría evitando la animación. Entonces generé GIFs mas pequeños pero el problema persistió. Experimentando, me di cuenta que si colocaba los GIFs en una sección vacía del Front Panel, se mantenián animados, y si los colocaba en una sección ocupada, en mi caso, sobre una imagen grande, el corportamiento de la animación a veces se volvía errático. Te adjunto un VI donde trato de ejemplificar esto, aunque lo acabo de probar y no ha fallado....siempre pasa, como el coche cuando lo llevas al mecánico o los niños cuando los llevas al doctor...nunca dan síntomas cuando deben de.
Además, encontré que otra cosa "rara" sucede, cuando tengo un GIF animado en un Front Panel, lo copio y pego (o lo clono con Ctrl + mouse drag), la nueva copia cambia de frame muy lento, o se queda estática.
Para mi aplicación, y para evitar cualquier problema de confiabilidad, realize las animaciones con un Picture Ring, y funciona muy bien. Por cierto, te agradezco el ejemplo de XControls, los conocía, pero no los he manejado a fondo, exploraré un poco al respecto, pero tambien me parece una excelente alternativa.
Espero puedas reproducir las situaciones que te comento y te agradezco como siempre tu tiempo y tu ayuda.
Saludos!
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