Making a single loop .gif play multiple times

GoldNetX · 07-24-2005

Hey, I am having trouble with some .gif images and Firefox. I have only tried my site on IE6 and Firefox, but the problem only arises when using Firefox

Website Location: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/awmayo/

On the left side of the side I have a preview box, and when a link is clicked on the left it changes the background image of the preview box at the top. I have links set to change the background to a .gif image so that it plays a slight animation. I want this only to be an intro animation so I have the .gifs set to only play once. The problem is that once a user click on a link and sees the animation, it won't play again until the user leaves the page and comes back. This only seems to be a problem with Firefox though, the images will play the intro everytime in IE.

I am wondering if anyone here has any clue how to simulate the way IE loads the images, or knows of any way to make this work.

Here are the links to the source code if you want it.

- HTML Page
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/awmayo/index.html

- CSS Page
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/awmayo/index.css

Thanks in advance.

Uncle Ghed · 07-24-2005

i guess the problem is that firefox puts the images in the browsers cache and plays them faster once he loaded them once.
I opened one of your gifs in imageready, and i found out that the timing for the frames is 0 seconds... maybe forcing a slightly slower animation, like 0.1 seconds, would work...

Order · 07-25-2005

The issue is caching. Firefox may be caching the image when it loads it, while IE does not. This is probably not fixible, as it is the behavior of the browser, not the page's coding.

IE likes to reload images that are specified in CSS everytime, Firefox appears to not reload the animation after it has already shown it.

ParaSnake · 07-25-2005

Its worked just well in Opera

GoldNetX · 07-25-2005

Thanks for the responses.

Quote:

IE likes to reload images that are specified in CSS everytime, Firefox appears to not reload the animation after it has already shown it.

That's what I was assuming was the problem. Maybe they will add the ability to change it sometime later.

Thanks anyway.