Animated GIFs in IE

B

Bob Clements

I have a page that displays an animated gif of a "progress bar" to indicate
the computer is "thinking" (Behind the scenes the system is doing some
processing via Java.). I include a meta refresh to redirect the page to the
results page which should be displayed once the computer has finished
processing. The code looks like this (albeit abbreviated for my example):

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;URL=nextpage.htm">
</head>
<body>
<img src="path to my image">
</body>
</html>

This works fine in all browser except for IE. Unfortunately, most of my
users use IE. With IE, the gif does not animate. The animation freezes
until the next page begins writing HTML. Does anyone know of a work around
for this problem?

Thanks,

Bob
 
D

Dave Patton

I have a page that displays an animated gif of a "progress bar"

Not if my browser is set to prevent GIF annimations.
to indicate the computer is "thinking" (Behind the scenes the system is
doing some processing via Java.)

Not if I have disabled Java, or don't have it installed.
This works fine in all browser except for IE.

Does it work in Lynx?
 
S

SpaceGirl

Bob said:
I have a page that displays an animated gif of a "progress bar" to indicate
the computer is "thinking" (Behind the scenes the system is doing some
processing via Java.). I include a meta refresh to redirect the page to the
results page which should be displayed once the computer has finished
processing. The code looks like this (albeit abbreviated for my example):

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;URL=nextpage.htm">
</head>
<body>
<img src="path to my image">
</body>
</html>

This works fine in all browser except for IE. Unfortunately, most of my
users use IE. With IE, the gif does not animate. The animation freezes
until the next page begins writing HTML. Does anyone know of a work around
for this problem?

Thanks,

Bob

By default Windows 2003 does NOT animate GIFs... be careful if you are
relying on animation.

But for the average users... IE is weird about the way it moves from
page to page. You could try forcing your server to only release pages
when they have finished rendering - in ASP, you can add a buffer in the
top of each page which means the server doesn't sent a requested page
until it has been fully processed, rather than sending it "in-line". I
guess this might not help tho. There's not much you can do.

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