Posted: 3/19/2005 5:45:30 AM EDT
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How come the little animated "do dad" tag charactors don't move around on my home computer? They dance like wild Phil in Seattle at an all night hooker fest on my work computer. How Sorry Phil, I know nobody wants that vision in their head.... |
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Several things can do that. What browser are you using? Most have built-in support for .gif file types. Try saving this do-dad  as a file (right click, save picture as ...) then open that file by double clicking it from explorer (not IE). If it don't dance then you've installed something that assumed the .gif file type and that may be affecting your browser behavior.You can reset the file type from tools->folder options->file types but that is not advisable for non-geeks. Sometimes it just easier to uninstall whatever it was that hijacked your animated web experience. That or you have a really slow computer... |
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Tools Internet Options Advanced scroll down and look for Play animations in web pages under the Multimedia section - ensure this has a check mark. and download Mozilla Firefox and stop using IE as much as possible. www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ It's free too. You'll like firefox. |
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When you saved the file did it save properly as a GIF or as a BMP? If it saved as a BMP your Temporary Internet pages cache is full and you need to clear it. To do so, click Tools, click Internet Options, click the General tab, and then click the Delete Files button. |
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Antivirus software blocking them? Spyware might make an association issue. Try running Ad Aware and Spybot search and Destroy. (both are free) You can also do a mini-nuke it from orbit and try reseting IE's Defaults : Tools Internet Options Advanced Tab Restore Defaults and Reboot. |
OK, I'll finish your M1A and M14 stock for free |
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FYI, those animated .GIF files have nothing to do with javascript or anything external of the actual .GIF file The frames are just stored as individual images in the file that the browser recognizes and just cycles through. When you turn off the animations in the IE settings, IE will just show the first image/frame of the animation. |
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Hey, you volunteered. I quit that crap long ago. "Hey, What do you do for a living." "Ahh, I fight computers." "Oh really!!, I have a Whizbang 4000 with internet Exploder and it crashes all the time. What do you think is wrong." "Ahhh, I have no idea, could you leave me alone now?" "Shoot, well what about the new SoundSmasher Infinity card, do like 'em." "Oh, your talking about a PC. Well, good luck with that. They keep saying they'll get anti-gravity to work on of these days too." |