A 2 MB GIF built from screen-captured stills of the image in the previous post is here. It's only 16 frames so not as complex, but it moves faster and might give Safari users an idea of what the grid looks like in Firefox/Netscape/IE. As I understand it Safari, alone among browsers, does not load animated GIFs in sync, so you get random clumps of synchronization depending on which GIFs load first. This would not be a desirable effect here. Safari also fuzzes out GIFs when you use HTML to scale them up, under the assumption that the only imagery ever used on the Web is photography, which benefits from smoothing. Why do Steve Jobs' designers hate lo-fi artists?
It 'works' now but has a totally different feel. Very mechanical.
Should we be putting a banner at the entry point of our websites saying best viewed in Firefox? Will Firefox pay me lots of money to do that? Should we start an anti-Safari campaign and then Steve Jobs will buy us out?
hmmm...
I really do not know how Apple managed to mess up Safari like this. I am using Konqueror, the Free Software browser that Safari is based on. Much better with GIFs! But there's no dropshadow anywhere ...
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A 2 MB GIF built from screen-captured stills of the image in the previous post is here. It's only 16 frames so not as complex, but it moves faster and might give Safari users an idea of what the grid looks like in Firefox/Netscape/IE. As I understand it Safari, alone among browsers, does not load animated GIFs in sync, so you get random clumps of synchronization depending on which GIFs load first. This would not be a desirable effect here. Safari also fuzzes out GIFs when you use HTML to scale them up, under the assumption that the only imagery ever used on the Web is photography, which benefits from smoothing. Why do Steve Jobs' designers hate lo-fi artists?
- tom moody 2-15-2007 9:04 pm
It 'works' now but has a totally different feel. Very mechanical.
Should we be putting a banner at the entry point of our websites saying best viewed in Firefox? Will Firefox pay me lots of money to do that? Should we start an anti-Safari campaign and then Steve Jobs will buy us out?
hmmm...
- j (guest) 2-15-2007 9:36 pm
I really do not know how Apple managed to mess up Safari like this. I am using Konqueror, the Free Software browser that Safari is based on. Much better with GIFs! But there's no dropshadow anywhere ...
- drx (guest) 2-16-2007 7:20 pm