I've noticed that some animated GIFs (whether a bug in Konqueror or by their poor design) seem to run without any delays btw frames, such that they go as fast as possible. Perhaps there ought to be a minimum delay to prevent this from happening, overriding the value stored in the GIF.
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 23:57, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I sent an email to the Register about one of their pages > with animated gifs in an ad. Running debian / KDE/ > Konqueror, it instantly took my cpu load up to 100% and > it stayed there (at least on gkrellm) until I moved from > the page. The same page in Mozilla was at 50 -60% > > That would account for slow input or scrolling > > Funny, it was just one ad, and other pages that also had > animated gifs were only in the 3 - 4 % range > > on another machine (windows) the same page in IE had the > gif running MUCH slower
