problem with animated gif

wont show properly in netscape

[Barry]

Hi Everyone,

I need to pick a few brains on the topic of animated gifs.
A gif i am using for a client's site wil not render proberly on netscape 6.2
The height = 25 and width = 250

I really puzzled with this one.Is there certain html code that I should/should not use when inserting an animated gif.

It is going in a table cell between center tags.

It shows up fine in i5 5+ and opera 6 but is really small in netscape.
Any help, I'm baffled!

Thanks in advance guys,

Barry

[korkus2000]

What does your image tag look like?

[tedster]

It is going in a table cell between center tags.

If it looks something like this:

<td>
<center>
<img src="animated.gif>
</center>
</td>

I'd suggest trying this:

<td style="text-align:center">
&nbsp;
<img src="animated.gif>
&nbsp:
</td>

First, the center attribute for <td> is deprecated. Second, I included non-breaking spaces because some browsers won't render text-related styles the way you expect, unless there is some "true" text in the element. You can try it without the spaces - they may not matter in this case.

[Purple Martin]

Looking at the image dimensions and alignment, I'm guessing that the image is an advertising banner.
(I'll ignore the fact that I hate banners for now, because I know that some people depend on them for an income, possibly including you.)
You could make sure that the first frame of the animation contains enough useful content to convey the message to the user even if it fails to animate.

[Barry]

Hi Guys ,
Thanks for your replys.
I'm not a fan of animated gifs either but my client would like one on his home page and i serve him.

I've just turned on my pc so i'll try your suggestions and let u know how i get on.

Second, I included non-breaking spaces because some browsers won't render text-related styles the way you expect, unless there is some "true" text in the element.

This suggestion from Tedster sounds promising.
Its a text animation, which says 'feel the pulse' and starts off small and increases in size and then reduces again.My clients idea is that they would 'see' and feel the pulse.

I wonder if there is an alternative......mmmmmm
Bye for now,
Barry

[Barry]

Hi Again Lads,

I've sorted out the problem...Praise God !

It wasn't the html coding that was causing me problems, it waws the setting of the animated gif.

Disposal Methods : "Disposal method gives instructions on what to do with the previous frame once a new frame is displayed" (o reilly)

I had to change the setting from 'do not display' to 'automatic' in imageready.
This essentially replaced one full frame with another in the series of animations, which worked perfectly when i checked i on netscape 6.2

Thanks again for the html coding tips.
Barry