[thelist] no background image with AOL

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Found this:
	In order for an image to be compressed, it must have the following
characteristics:
	[others snipped]
	The object must not be an animated GIF. 
on that site. So to stop AOL breaking your GIFs, make it a well optimised
animated GIF with one pixel changing between frames.
(a well optimised image should only have the changes in the new frame,
so won't add significantly to the filesize)

Martin Burns
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> martin,
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> : From: Burns, Martin <BURNSM@rbos.co.uk>
> : > From: isaac [SMTP:isaac@members.evolt.org]
> : >
> : > Was the image of low contrast? (ie, maybe black bg with grey texture
> or
> : > something). Does AOL alter image compression for people who use
> browsers
> : > besides their own?
> : >
> : > I've heard that AOL will mess up some JPG/GIFs to minimise bandwidth
> : > usage.
> : > All I can think of was that it's changed the background image colours
> so
> : > that they are now indistinguishable from each other.
> : [Burns, Martin]
> : I understand that's only with their broken browser, but I'm open to
> : correction.
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> 
> actually, their proxy machines f*ck with all the images that come through
> their network, no matter which browser you use.  if the graphics
> compression
> is turned on in the aol program settings, then the user will be getting
> the
> compressed graphics, even if they're using netscape or ie4/5.
> 
> i know there's some info here about this very thing:
> 
> http://webmaster.info.aol.com/
> 
> good luck,
> 
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