What HB may not have realised is that many people can probably run these animations with no trouble --- eg. despite tripping up on a 2-year old i-Mac with 1-year old OS, they apparently fire up fine on an I-phone! WFL On 8/28/15, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
There are 2 problems:
1. Getting the .gif file itself downloaded, rather than some .jpg still image approximation. Hopefully, appending "?dl=1" to the URL will fix this problem.
2. Once you have the .gif file itself downloaded, displaying it in animated form might require a tiny bit of work. On Windows, .gif files might be claimed by one or more web browsers (Explorer, Firefox, Opera, etc.), as well as "Windows Picture & Fax Viewer", Paint, Quicktime Player, etc. I find that "Windows Picture & Fax Viewer" is a bit slow to load, but it provides acceptable results. Most browsers also provide adequate display.
Note that different browsers animate .gif files with different frame rates; I'm not aware that .gif files have a particular standard frame rate. I haven't searched for info on how to change the .gif frame rate in a browser, but I assume that it is one of the myriad changeable parameters (in Firefox check the "page" about:config).
At 01:25 PM 8/28/2015, Fred Lunnon wrote:
The problems begin once you have accessed the file --- if you get lucky, your system does the right thing: in this case, run the animated .GIF in your browser. If not, you have to tinker in some unpreductable fashion, as Henry and I both discovered.
WFL
On 8/28/15, Mike Speciner <ms@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
As near as I can tell, if you place a file in your Public dropbox subdirectory and copy the public link, then it is directly accessible to anyone using that link.
--ms
On 28-Aug-15 10:34, Henry Baker wrote:
Downloading this gif still required:
1. Turning on javascript (aka p0wnscript) for dropbox.com 2. Turning on javascript for dropboxstatic.com 3. Turning on javascript for ajax.googleapis.com
4. And then going through a dialog to say that I didn't want to sign up for Dropbox.
5. And then finally clicking on a "download" button.
Remember, you need "?dl=1" instead of "?dl=0" at the end of the URL below in order to get the damn thing to download immediately.
At 05:31 PM 8/27/2015, Fred Lunnon wrote:
And Fred Lunnon seizes the opportunity to wheel out his animation of the seven-link robot / rigid kaleidocycle at https://www.dropbox.com/s/aeo6rxtc5j4p291/sevenring.gif?dl=0
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