[Javascript] For the birds

[tedd at sperling.com (tedd)]

At 1:07 PM -0800 12/26/06, Paul Novitski wrote:
>At 12/26/2006 08:59 AM, tedd wrote:
>>I'm trying to get a flying bird animation to work well on my site. 
>>The testing page is:
>>
>>http://sperling.com/index1.php
>>
>>It seems to work well enough for Macintosh's Safari and Opera 
>>browsers. But for FireFox (Mac version) it acts strange -- not all 
>>of the GIF89 animation shows.
>>
>>Other than BrowserCam, I don't have the capability to view how 
>>various IEs handles the animation. In IE 7, it appears to work, but 
>>in IE 6 I don't see anything. But again, this is via BrowserCam's 
>>remote and as such I'm not sure I'm getting an accurate view.
>
>
>Hi Tedd,
>
>On my WinXP laptop it works fine in Firefox 2 but in IE 6 the bird 
>appears intermittently.  As the page is loading the bird appears 
>momentarily over near the tree but disappears right away (probably 
>as soon as the animation begins).  It reappears twice on its trip 
>across my monitor doing an upward glide -- although of course it's 
>supposed to be gliding down after having flapped up, hinting at a 
>loss of synchrony between the GIF animation and the javascript 
>animation.
>
>Good luck,
>Paul

Paul:

What I am finding is that IE 6 continues to load and reload the two 
images I use to make the animation. For whatever reason, IE 6 does 
not cache the two images.

Anyone have an idea or suggestion as to how to make IE 6 play well 
with caching images?

Again, the page is:  http://sperling.com/index1.php  (all source code 
is embedded)

Thanks,

tedd
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