Re: two issues more to go 1)background img 2.) animated .gif ...

dorayme wrote:
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No. There are two reasons why an animated gif will stop
looping in a browser:

1. The gif was made to stop after a set number of loops.
The maker can control this. Think of it as the gif maker
putting a little invisible intangible ex traffic cop in
with the gif who is ordered to stop it after a set number
of loops.

2. The user has a browser that has a preference or option
to stop it after a user set number of loops. The reason
browser makers put in this option is because they were
required to by law. There were too many people going
crazy suffering endless looping animations, some of
them tripped into homicidal rages, taking machine guns
into shopping centres etc...

There is at least one other reason why animated gifs will stop animating, and that is in older IE browsers (IE 6 certainly) where any execution of a javascript pseudo-protocol HREF will put the browser into an 'about to navigate' state in which it stops bothering to animate gifs, load new resources (for things such as image swapping), etc. See:-

<URL: http://jibbering.com/faq/#javascriptURI >

Richard.

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