I believe I'm the only forumite with an animated avatar.

maxa beam · Jun 20, 2008

.. Of this variety.

If you have the newest version of Firefox, my avatar is animated. If not, it shows two lasers shooting into the sky with my name displayed. It's not a .Gif.
It's a .png!

I've never seen a .png avatar before. Not here, not anywhere.

Now I can stroll around in my two frames of goodness knowing I'm unique.

Whoo hoo.

NA8 · Jun 20, 2008

It's static on Opera 9.20 (an older version).

LukeA · Jun 20, 2008

I don't see it in Camino 1.6.1. I do see a few animated gif avatars here though.

AlexGT · Jun 20, 2008

Old IE and I don't see any animation

Radio · Jun 20, 2008

He must be seeing a local cached copy on his own computer.

UnderTheWeepingMoon · Jun 20, 2008

I'm running Firefox 3 and I can see it fine.

climberkid · Jun 20, 2008

UnderTheWeepingMoon said:
I'm running Firefox 3 and I can see it fine.

same! and how do you do it! i wanna try!

LuxLuthor · Jun 21, 2008

http://animatedpng.com/

Still not enough reason for me to upgrade to Firefox 3.0

jzmtl · Jun 21, 2008

NA8 said:
It's static on Opera 9.20 (an older version).

Opera 9.50 can see the animation.

Trashman · Jun 21, 2008

I don't see it with my version of Firefox 2.x, but I've seen plenty of animated avitars on here.

Crenshaw · Jun 21, 2008

Trashman said:
I don't see it with my version of Firefox 2.x, but I've seen plenty of animated avitars on here.

+1

personally im glad we dont have loads of animated stuff blinking around everytime we open a new thread.

Ive opened people's facebook/friendster/blog pages, or threads in other forums, only to be assaulted with music or loads of blinky icons....not fun..

Crenshaw

Fallingwater · Jun 21, 2008

I've been using SeaMonkey (the evolution of the old non-firefox Mozilla) for a while. I had FF installed, but rarely used it.

I was then convinced to try FF3. To see which of the two eats more memory, I upgraded to the last version of both browsers.

Now I have FF3, which runs all my plugins but takes about 40/50% more RAM for a given set of tabs, and the newest SeaMonkey, which takes less memory but now refuses to run FlashBlock, which is essential to me.

Moral of the story: if it ain't broken, don't fix it

maxa beam · Jun 21, 2008

FF isn't that bad on memory. It works fine on even my oldest Windows 98 'puter.

LukeA · Jun 21, 2008

Radio said:
He must be seeing a local cached copy on his own computer.

I can see it in FF3.

Empath · Jun 21, 2008

Our rules do address animated avatars.

Generally, if we take note of or receive a complaint of a distracting avatar that's winking, blinking, flashing or strobing, we simply remove it. Whether any moderator or administrator has one of the browsers that let you see the animated png avatars, I don't know. In that case, we may have to place more reliance on the reported ones, and consider that we might not be able to see all the animation ourselves.

Anyway, the best consideration in selecting an avatar is to try visualizing it as others might see it.

maxa beam · Jun 21, 2008

It's a 1100 millisecond framerate, and only two frames. Not seizure material, I think.

jzmtl · Jun 21, 2008

Did he got banned because of the avatar?:huh2:

Empath · Jun 21, 2008

jzmtl · Jun 21, 2008

Okay, just want to make sure a two framed avatar is not ground for banning.

LuxLuthor · Jun 21, 2008

jzmtl said:
Did he got banned because of the avatar?:huh2:

Friendly FYI, item 4 - 2nd paragraph.

I believe I'm the only forumite with an animated avatar.

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