Re: loops and animation time in banners

From: James Santagata <jms_at_tribalnoise.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:39:12 -0500 (CDT)

LAZAR DZAMIC WROTE:
>Hello, I'm following the discussion with great pleasure. I
>have a question: can anyone tell me why Yahoo! and many
>other web sites limit the number of loops and animation
>duration time in banners?

>From a technical/cost standpoint, I would think websites
that serve the animated banners (mostly gif ani's rather
than script generated animations) would only be concerned
with the total file size, since all of the display and
processing of that file is done on the client's side.

These sites may limit the loops/animation time to not be
overbearing or irritating to site visitors, and also so that
if the user decides to print the page, they don't have to
worry about the animation throwing any quirks into the
process (and the user doesn't have to worry about turning
off the animations through the browser, every time).

Just some thoughts.


Best regards,

James Santagata
TribalNoise!
Internet Marketing Strategists

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Received on Thu Jun 17 1999 - 13:57:09 CDT