Safari and animated .gifs

Safari is causing my mac to beachball on pages that I frequent with animated gifs. here is an example...
http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f61/fedor-haters-unite-908608/
Any suggestions?

Yeah, me too here.
I Had to force-quit Safari 4.0 for the first time also, with the spinning pizza ball.
It loaded at first and hic-upped a little first then I just got the spinner.
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.
And, Otherwise, the new Safari and that Java Release 9 has been behaving fine for me.
Others BEWARE !!!
TTab

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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.

OT - Safari and ani GIF images?

What would cause one not to do its thing in Safari 1.3.2?
Can you see the one here (if you have that version loaded)? -
http://www.murraytestsite.com/nni/n_default.php
I see it fine in 2.0.3, but in earlier versions, a revisit to
the page
doesn't animate the GIF.
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Good point. The display none is there (in an embedded
stylesheet) to allow
me to use a single template for several pages with different
layout. I'll
see if I can just plop that puppy on the page instead.
Thanks, Os.
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"Osgood" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
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> Murray *ACE* wrote:
>
>> What would cause one not to do its thing in Safari
1.3.2?
>>
>> Can you see the one here (if you have that version
loaded)? -
>>
>>
http://www.murraytestsite.com/nni/n_default.php
>>
>> I see it fine in 2.0.3, but in earlier versions, a
revisit to the page
>> doesn't animate the GIF.
>
>
> I don't see the animated gif at all in version 1.00.
Nada, nothing onload
> or on refresh.
>
> A few tests have revealed that this version of Safari
simply does not like
> the animated gif as a background image. If the gif is
inserted directly
> into the <div> it plays without any issues.
>
> Not sure why you have a display: none <div> in the
same <div> as the
> animated gif appears but you obviously have your
reasons. You may have to
> do the relative/absolute thingy if you want to support
earlier versions of
> Safari and use that same construction.
>

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"Ioan Vlad Dragomir" wrote:
>>Hi. Does anybody know how to put an *.jpeg image and an animated gif >on
the front panel of a VI?>>I would be greatfull for any help.>Vlad
Hi Vlad
Have a look at the ""Example Programs Database ""
Reading from JPEG/PNG/BMP Images into a LabVIEW Picture Control.
http://digital.ni.com/explprog.nsf/75c7cd5de6d387788625663d00558a4c/ab8e1f3913731e208625677d0076acd6?OpenDocument
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Thank you for your offer, I do appreciae it. But I think the better question to ask at this point is : What is the last version of Photoshop Elements that supports editing animated gif files. This is too important to me to lose this ability and after checking further I see CS4 is out of my price and needed features range. I would rather hang on to my old laptop to manipulate photos than lose the ability to edit my .gif files.
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I am trying to add an animated gif to my web page that i made in iweb. no matter what, it seems to import the animated gif as a .mov and will not play when it is published to my server. is there anyway to stop this? i tried several different programs to make the animated gif (pixen, gifbuilder, giffun) but no matter what program it is made from it doesn't seem to function as an animated gif, it just converts to an mov.

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Your Gif has artifacts in the workspace and GIF doesn't produce the nicest picture quality.
You might get better results with jQuery Cycle and an array of higher quality JPGS.
http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/
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APEX V4.2.3
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- How do we communicate with the browser that it should no longer display the loading icon
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$('#apex_wait_popup').hide();
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But when do we use this code? Quite simple when the document is downloaded. When is it downloaded? At the end of the PL/SQL code that prints the document to the browser.
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Then all you need to do is let the browser ask for the value. You could do this by using JavaScript to continuously fire AJAX to the server using a JS timing event:
http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_timing.asp
Better would be a Server send event, but since you left out another crucial piece of information: your browser, I will not go deeper into this.
Start this timing event when someone asks for the document, and end it as soon as the process returns that :AI_PRINTED equals 'Y'.
Despite the lack of information, I hope I have given, or at least inspired you to get to the solution.
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Joni

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I think the album isn't able to do that.Get more info from a staff member:
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Hi guys, thanks for your help.
I made an animated gif in Photoshop CS4 and inserted it as an animation into captivate 6. The animation works (I played it several times by opening it with internet explorer and safari). But when I open it in Captivate the animation goes black for a split second-several times, before it reappears-several times. It gives it almost a "reloading" or pause look when I play it. The same in flash, but in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional the timeline shows black dots once in a while, as you can see in the screen shot below.
See those black dots? I will insert a picture of what happens, when the player lands on one of those black dots:
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