And my best guess is that you're right about the iPhone not being as forgiving. Or maybe there was just a glitch. Either way, Let me share with you all that I am no longer experiencing the problem, but... I don't know what the problem was. After pounding away at it for the better part of two days, I finally threw in the towel, created a different page, similar to the first but with new animated gifs, and... viola! It works.
Which is good news. But... I have no idea why the first one didn't work. Oh well.. such is life. (BTW, I use photophop & ImageReady for gif creation). I'm still playing around with other issues - page sizes, differences with portrait vs. landscape, etc. But the basic functionality that I needed, that I should have had from the very beginning, is there. Mysterious and annoying, that it didn't work the first time, but... oh well. I'm moving on with my life :-) Thanks all for your input. -Steve On Oct 26, 4:18 am, AwayBBL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > steve, The only thing I can think of is that perhaps whatever tool you > are using to create your gif animations might not be generating good > files, and that the iphone might not be as forgiving in reading them. > > On Oct 25, 3:18 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah, you'd think LOL > > > But I can't seem to get it to work. I've set it to width = 980, scale > > = 1.0, I've tried 320 / 1,0, and 320 / 0.9, and 980 / 0.9, and 0.8, > > and... every possible combination I can think of. I either get the > > right size but no animation, or way too big, but with animation > > working, or slightly too big, etc.. And I can get it to work > > PERFECTLY, but only if I go to the index page, go to a second page > > (linked from the index page) and back again. THEN, it's the perfect > > size, and the animations work. But I can't get the page to LOAD that > > way. > > > If anyone out there has an iPhone and would like to help me figure > > this out, I'd be glad to send you the url that I'm trying to get to > > work. > > > On Oct 25, 12:06 pm, Mr Junk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > viewport and scale are your friends. > > > ml > > > > On Oct 25, 2007, at 10:20 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Craig, > > > > > I appreciate the response, but... I know :-) I've got those specs, > > > > but the size limit is gigantic, and my gifs are tiny. And since my > > > > post things have just gone completely down the rabbit hole. Sometimes > > > > they work (animate) and sometimes they don't. > > > > > It is so beyond frustrating, I can get the page to load perfectly, but > > > > the gifs don't animate, or I can have the page come in at the wrong > > > > size - way, way too big, or sometimes just slightly too big, but with > > > > animations working. And sometimes it comes in wrong, but after zooming > > > > in and zooming out and sometimes going to a 2nd page, then back to the > > > > homepage, it's the right size, and with animations, but I can't get it > > > > to do that upon initial loading. Grrrrrrr.............. > > > > > On Oct 25, 10:12 am, craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Mobile Safari only allows animated GIFs up to a certain size (that is > > > >> a function of the dimensions and number of frames). If the images > > > >> are > > > >> larger than the limit, Safari only renders the first frame. Check > > > >> out > > > >> Apple's iphone web app documentation for exact numbers (and that > > > >> should be a prerequisite anyhow): > > > > >> http://developer.apple.com/iphone/devcenter/ > > > > >> Good Luck! > > > >> the other Craig- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
