Unfortunately GIF doesn't have alpha, so pixels must either be fully transparent or a solid color. The spinner tries for an antialiased look around the edge despite this, and I wonder if the original GIF was exported with a darker "background" color shade applied around those edges. (The original glitchy one comes from http://ajaxload.info/ which allows you to choose both a background and a foreground color.)
The new spinner you exported looks nice on a white background, but not on a dark. Does Photoshop have a "matte" setting you can apply as you export, while still saving it with transparency? If so, I think that would be the thing to try, setting it closer to #333 (the top bar of Futon's main page) or #6B6B6B (the band in the upload dialog). Unfortunately neither my usual Acorn.app nor the Pixelmator demo I downloaded have support for exporting animated GIFs. thanks, -natevw On Feb 1, 2011, at 1:04 AM, Sebastian Cohnen wrote: > Hey Dirkjan, > > there was a JIRA ticket about the previous spinner image being broken [1]. > with my photoshop (but not existing expertise with it), I exported the > reporters PSD. Maybe I did something wrong here. Unfortunately I didn't > noticed it when I tested the export :-/ > > Suggestions? > > > [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-984 > > On 01.02.2011, at 09:52, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > >> Silly issue: is anyone else seeing that the spinner image in 1.0.2 >> looks crappy in some browsers? It looks like there's some issue with >> transparency. >> >> - Looks wrong in Firefox 4 on OS X, Safari on OS X, Chrome on Windows XP >> - Looks right in Firefox 4 on Windows >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dirkjan >
