Re: Smileys don't animate
On 2010-11-28 12:14 +0100, Barry Samuels wrote:
> I run my own (non-commercial) web site which includes a forum. There are
> smileys which can be used in the posts which are supposed to animate
> except that they don't animate on my desktop machine.
Do other GIFs animate there?
> My desktop runs Debian Testing/Squeeze, up to date, and uses a 2.6.34
> kernel plus the nouveau graphics driver. I used to use the nv graphics
> driver which exhibited the same problem.
>
> I understand that these animated smileys are multi-layered GIFs and it
> seems that I only see one layer which in some cases is not enough to even
> identify the smiley image.
>
> If I boot the same machine from an oldish Knoppix DVD (kernel 2.6.19) the
> smileys animate as expected. That DVD appears to use the nv driver.
>
> I can view the same page on my Laptop and the smilies animate on that.
>
> The really strange part is that I also have a local copy of the web site
> running under Apache on my desktop and the smileys do animate on that.
With the same web browser?
> Any ideas?
Not really, but in Mozilla based browsers you may want to check the
value of image.animation_mode in about:config.
Sven
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