anim. gifs & cache
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- stewart
here's the problem:
i have 3 html pages with each a different animated gif as background image (playing 1x, no loop).
when i visit one of the html pages it works okay, the background gif animation plays one time and stops. BUT when i'm going back to that page a minute later it shows the gif, but only the last frame of the animation, i think because the gif is stored in the browser cache.draft here (click buttons on the right) http://www.kulsdom.com/client/mo…
any solutions to keep the specific gifs out of the browser cache?
- welded0
Works alright for me. Firefox 2, OSX 10.3.9.
- welded0
I see what you describe in Safari, though. However, what's so bad about the GIF not animating? I think it works better that way, frankly. I saw the nifty effect the first time to the page and it's not like it's crucial to the design.
- stewart0
it's only in safari that it doesn't play for the second time, right? strange...
and it plays damn slow in safari.
wonder how it will perform in Explorer on pc.
- Sep0
Background works as it should in IE on pc. But I'm afraid your div's are all over the place. Everything looks fine in Firefox on pc.
- stewart0
thanks Sep, it's just a first quick draft. i'll fix the IE issue because the target audience are teachers on crappy school pc's.
- Timson0
yes, it gets cached. you should try get a random variabele into that imagelink (dont ask me how) but it should look like this:
and the part after the questionmark should be different everytime you load the page.but i think that's a very bad workaround tho.
- stewart0
timson,
i used that for loading images/texts in flash, with a random number after the questionmark.but why would it be a very bad workaround to use that in html links?
- Timson0
dunnow, i think the proper way is to not have the images cached in the first place (javascript, http-protocols?).
but that workaround would still do the trick, so don't mind using it.