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.
Now you’re out of line.
That’s no way to talk to wardaddy.
You should have the deleted post put back.
It is only fair since that is the position of FR.
I'm taking your words and wardaddy’s estimate of my being to heart as representing FR’s position.
Please, have the deleted post restored.
To all I offended get over it to all that I didn’t you are welcome. Now for the funny part... first time I ever saw the GIF was ... wait for it Right here on Free Republic
Well, shoot. I missed it!
It must have been something else! ;-)
Here is a very “dirty” pic for ya! You’re welcome : ),
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