On Mon, 21 May 2001 21:11:05 -0500, Erik Mattheis <gozz at gozz.com> wrote: >From: Erik Mattheis <gozz at gozz.com> >Subject: [thelist] AOL gif compression glitch? >Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org > > From the AOL Barf Department: > >A friend took this screenshot of a gif for me from AOL - >discoloration on a portion of the image: > ><http://gozz.com/temporary/re/mn2.gif> > >This is the original gif: ><http://gozz.com/temporary/re/images/mn_over.gif> > >On the same computer, Netscape and IE display it fine. > >Is there anything to do but sigh? Erik, I'm afraid there is not much we can do about it. But I have read in a mailinglist (this one may be) that one could prevent AOL stuff from sabotaging standard gifs in turning them into animated gifs as no compression occurs with such files. You would achieve this by adding an empty frame to your gif with tools like GraphicConverter (Macintosh). Sorry don't know any software on Windows platform. hih, JJS. -- personal site <http://www.yoyodesign.org/> public key id: 9eb99ddb <http://www.keyserver.net/>
