Timing troubleshooting

[nannergo]

For those of you in and/or watching this community, I've got a question:

Have any of the icons you've saved from nani_gifs ever looked too fast or sped up?I switched to Firefox as my browser recently and noticed the timing on many of the icons is way fast. They looked fine on Internet Explorer but I'd prefer them to look fine on both. I'll be

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[aellwynde]

I use Firefox, and I don't have any troubles.

[nannergo]

That's good to know, thank you for the reply.

[do_it_properly]

I use a mac, and therefore never use IE, so I haven't seen this problem myself but I've heard of it. I think the way IE works is that if your delay between frames is less than, say 100/ms, it will just ignore it and set it to 100/ms. Firefox, on the other hand, would follow whatever delay is set within the gif. So it's possible that IE is playing it slower than you've actually got the delay set for, while FF is showing it at the proper rate. Sorry I don't have a better answer for you - you might have to do some searching around. And please don't quote me on the 100/ms - I know that IE has some default rate, but I'm not sure what it is, so I just used 100/ms as an example! Also, for what it's worth, they all look fine to me in Safari and Firefox.

[nannergo]

Thank you for replying. I'm glad to hear they look okay in Safari since I've seen reports in other icon comms that that browser speeds up ani icons. Gifs occasionally look sped up in IrfanView as well. On more recent icon batches I've been seeting frames at .1 instead of .0_ increments or no delay at all. The difference in ms appears to make the gifs the same speed when viewed in either IE or Firefox (and on different computers), for me anyway.

However, if there really is no slowdown, that'll save me the trouble of re-timing and reposting.

[mrssmeagol]

The ones I've stol-ermh, saved have been working fine. (I use Explorer.)

[nannergo]

Yeah, Explorer's been pretty faithful at showing me what I want as my results. (through ImageReady's preview mode)

[eledhwen_20]

I use Firefox and all those I've downloaded seem fine to me, but I don't know if they're necessarily faster than you intended. I'd suggest downloading Firefox and looking back through your entries both in a Firefox window and an IE one if you really want to scrutinise the situation!

[nannergo]

I use Firefox and have compared the icon speed in both. Firefox seems to be speeding a lot of them up, but judging from the replies so far, it's only happening to me! :]

[eledhwen_20]

Very odd. The only icon I've heard of that does that belongs to my friend soma_astrid. It's this scary one.

[nannergo]

Okay, that totally made me LOL. haha, dare I ask what that's from?

[katels]

These are some fantastic icons you've got here!

You said in your userinfo that it doesn't hurt to make a request, so here's mine: Have you seen Bridget Jones' Diary? You know the bit where Daniel calls her on FR Leavus (sp?) being dead, and along the bottom of the screen, Bridget's handwriting writes "fuuuuuuuuuuuck"...? Cos that would make SUCH an awesome icon... : )

[nannergo]

Hi, and thank you! :)

I've never seen any of the Bridget Jones movies, actually. (And am probably the only woman on earth who hasn't!) I can only consider/fulfill requests from movies or shows I've seen, so at this time I'm not doing any Bridget Jones. I tend to icon more obscure subjects, so the possibility is slim atm. If I do see it and love it though, there's always a chance I might make them on a whim.

Because I hate seeing people go away empty handed (salesperson reflex) may I suggest checking with some Bridget Jones communities? Someone may already have iconed that scene.

[katels]

Fair enough. : )

If you do get around to seeing them, I think you'll find loads of iconnable scenes!

I've checked around some of the comms with no luck, but thankyou so much for the suggestion, that's really lovely of you... : )

[onlylisa]

I have it. Or the still one I am using in this post. Take either if you want.