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Lose the animated GIF on the website!

Lose the animated GIF on the website!

Posted Feb 12, 2008 6:17 UTC (Tue) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
Parent article: Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 released

I really like the idea of Nexenta but I *hate* the throbbing animated GIF on their website.
Throbbing GIFs were a bad idea in the 1990s, please lose this image if you want to avoid
putting people off.


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Lose the animated GIF on the website!

Posted Feb 12, 2008 18:54 UTC (Tue) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

Firefox and Konqueror, and probably other browsers, can be set to animate 
GIFs only once.

Lose the animated GIF on the website!

Posted Feb 14, 2008 13:40 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]

I know, but why should the user have to reconfigure the browser to get rid of an obnoxious
design element like this?

Lose the animated GIF on the website!

Posted Feb 14, 2008 13:55 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

Considering that there are quite a few sites with animated GIFs, I just set it once and 
forget about it.  Otherwise I'm in constant pain on the web.  Talk to the browser 
developers about making it the default setting.

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