I went to the site -- having to enter the URL by hand using F3 because the reference didn't contain the "http://"; which would have made it an active link.
I saw a number of ani-GIFs, but none of them were the author/artist's "work" ... all the work I found on the pages -- and I visited quite a few -- was static. Only the headers on the various pages were ani-GIFs and the narrative on the pages didn't indicate that the art work itself was anything other than photographs of "hard copy" art Justin has done in the last 20 years. So after writing the above, and thinking a bit more, I went back ... and discovered that the problem lies not within Arachne but within the page design [on the basic URL at least]. It is very difficult to render a small GIF -- ani- or otherwise -- when you make the darned thing "width 600" in the table design of the page. It may render correctly on browsers which use JS -- because of the style setup, etc. -- but it is flawed HTML to begin with. If you want to verify that Arachne can see the ani-GIFs and render them correctly, go to the page and scroll down to that 'grainy blob' area and do Right Click to isolate that particular graphic; you'll see it displayed on its own page in its proper size. l.d. ==== On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 16:07:44 -0000, Matt, Nic and Wilf wrote: > Arachne supports animated GIFs, right? > So why don't the ones on this site work- > www.ahumanbeing.co.uk > ? > I can see that they're unusually large (the site's author uses them as an > artform). But does anyone know why they appear static and grainy in Arachne > whilst certain other browsers cope okay? > The site contains many links to pages that consist entirely of large > animated gifs (when I say "large" I mean a few tens to a few hundred K). > Arachne won't > even look at these even if I allow it 4MB for them. Arachne is configured > with all the XMS memory and disk cache it could possibly want on this system > and also has 70+ K free conventional memory... > TIA > Matt -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
