I'm working on a website that I want to be extremely mobile-friendly. For the landing page, we'd like to have a central image that cycles through three photos over and over. Obviously, we don't want to use a Flash-based solution, so I was thinking animated GIF would be the way to go. Yes?

If we want the image to be 400px wide, will the file size be killer? Would we set it up with frame after frame that's exactly the same, or set the "change" speed to be about every half-second? Recommended online resources or freeware to do this?

No. Use JavaScript. If you use a GIF, it'll be ugly.

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Using photos as GIFs animated or otherwise is going to yield a poor result due to the GIFs limited color space.

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Animated GIFs are old school. JavaScript ilike MAVIC said.

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Animated GIFs are old school.

That's what she said.

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Animated GIFs are old school.

That's what she said.

Obviously the color palette is way too limited. Plus you can really see the banding around those jablonski's.

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OK then, let's see you post a JavaScript showing something better on the forum!

what's a"jablonski"...?

I'm used to seeing something like this...



that's why I asked...

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what's a"jablonski"...?

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I'm used to seeing something like this...



that's why I asked...

Ur...no...that's not THESE jablonskis...

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(function(){
  var dd=36, i, div;
  div=document.createElement('div');
  for(i=0;i<dd;i++){
    div.appendChild(document.createTextNode('( . )( . )'));
  }
})();

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(function(){
  var dd=36, i, div;
  div=document.createElement('div');
  for(i=0;i<dd;i++){
    div.appendChild(document.createTextNode('( . )( . )'));
  }
})();

Nice tight code.

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