Posted on 10/24/2015 11:09:31 AM PDT by palmer
This is a plea from those of us with limited bandwidth. This morning there was a touchdown animation that took about 2 minutes to load on my browser. It was in a thread that was completely unrelated to football or touchdowns. There are an increasing number of animated GIFs showing up that are either unrelated to the topic or superfluous.
Videos like youtube links are automatically blocked from loading until you ask to load them. Those are great and I select a few to click and load. Links to animated GIFs could be replaced with a single frame GIF of the same content although only in some cases.
Animated GIFs are downloaded whether I want them to be or not to be downloaded. Obviously a very large high res static GIF might also chew up some BW, But an animated GIF even medium or low res can have lots of frames and take lots of bandwidth to download. It can be the same (in BW terms) as loading the thread with hundreds of low-res pictures. If someone knows a way to stop those kinds of downloads in Safari, I would like to know that too.
Thanks for listening and for your consideration.
Please tell me you have an AOL dial up system and you are paying $9.95 a month.
Tell ya what...
Go sit outside a McDonalds to grab their internet. It will run a lot better.
A most reasonable request. Not everyone has 100+ mbps download speeds (like I do). A little consideration would go a long way.
So everybody should be prohibited from posting what they want because you have a poor computer or slow Internet?
Sorry but the world doesn’t work that way
And I'll only post this one once!
I enjoy those pix that are posted in 40,000 x 20,000 pixel sizes.
Even on my 50 Mbps and Win7, i5 processor with 12 GB of RAM, it takes a while. But, even on the 24” monitor, I have to use the scroll bars to move around the image.
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Only 1 MB, not bad, and pretty funny. So that one is ok. Hopefully everyone else will learn from your example.
Is it Alcee Hastings?
That baby still gives me the night terrors
BTW, for those of you who are obviously not taking this seriously, I replied to Bolobaby and that reloaded the thread. In doing so Bolobaby’s relatively smaller animated GIF (1MB) also reloaded from cache instantly. But the large animated GIFs that other people posted did not reload and in fact had to start all over reloading from scratch.
When large animated gif’s are outlawed, only outlaws will have large animated gif’s.
That one is useless without animation, so I’ll have to make an exception, but just this one time. Or maybe one more. But that’s the absolute limit
Get the Ad Block Plus add-on for your browser.
A lot of junk is blocked for you. Plus, you can add your own custom blocks.
With my limited broadband width, the Internet would be unusable without Ad Block Plus.
Can you save it to disk and check the size? I have yet to download it after 5 minutes of trying.
Can you save it to disk and check the size? I have yet to download it after 5 minutes of trying.
Why is your lack of bandwidth our problem?
That double post is really not my fault. Because the computer was still struggling to download the image in my reply window I could not get “post” button click feedback (graying out).
Excellent testimony in favor of animated gifs.
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