[Duskrider]

No problem, I can live with it.
I just won't tell Sandee. 

[Freddy]

Out of interest is it just this site ?

[Duskrider]

Usually I post my gif's in the forum page itself, as I did "Window Shopping" (yesterday).   Just the media page here now that don't allow it.

Hummm...(thinking)   when i posted "Window Shopping" yesterday, I should have made it as attachment instead of linked pic. ........  but can click on pic for size change. 
Life habit, always think after I do.   

[Freddy]

Ah I see, I thought you meant Windows media player or something, sorry.

It does animate if you click to 'Click picture to view fullsize' :

Try it out on this one.

http://aidreams.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=media;sa=item;in=315

[DaveMorton]

That works. It animates well when viewed full size.

[Duskrider]

wait a minute now
go up to media and click media
it show all the pics in there and won't go annimated.

I got feeling the pic you selected is in the forum itself and not gallery.   apples and oranges   

[Data]

If you click the zoom button at the bottom of the picture I notice it does then load in the animated gif. 

[Freddy]

Yeah the zoom works too.

Dusky, the media section and the forum pictures are totally separate.  The image I linked to is in the media section.  Although you can link (embed) to a media image from the forum.

I can't make the thumbnails animate, it only seems to animate it when you fully load the image.  It seems the preview pictures (ie not full size) do what the say on the tin, in that it is just a preview...

I can add a message to the media page saying 'Click on full view to see any animations' or something like that.

[DaveMorton]

The reason that the images won't animate is because both the ImageMagic and GD2 PHP libraries don't support animated gif format when resizing the images. Unfortunately, there's only one option for Freddy here, to make the images animate all the time, and that's to use the image itself, and use HTML to set the size, which not only is a poor coding practice, but also produces poor results. Sorry, dusky, but it's best to just leave it as is, for now.

[Freddy]

Yes and the person who made the media modification says that previews are used to lower bandwidth or in other words the amount of data the forum chugs out.  It makes sense to keep the forum snappy and to do that you need to control bandwidth.

I have enquired about settings to show images at full size anyway, as I limit the sizes to 1024, but that won't be good for people on a 1024 screen.

There always has to be a compromise unfortunately.

[Duskrider]

Ah yes, I see it can be animated
I'm a happy camper.   

[DaveMorton]

Hey, Freddy! If I point out some minor glitches in the CSS, will you send me to my room? Or take it in the spirit it's offered? "D

[Freddy]

I would take that in good spirit   Fire away...

I'm guessing this is in Internet Explorer ?

[Freddy]

I would also like to see a login form somewhere, so a user doesn’t have to go to the login page.

I have now added login panels to the home page and the forum index.  Mouse saved ?

[Data]

I like it, didn’t notice it at first because I was logged in.

Yes mouse saved 

Thank You