[Javascript] For the birds

[Paul Novitski]

At 12/26/2006 08:59 AM, tedd wrote:
>I'm trying to get a flying bird animation to work well on my site. 
>The testing page is:
>
>http://sperling.com/index1.php
>
>It seems to work well enough for Macintosh's Safari and Opera 
>browsers. But for FireFox (Mac version) it acts strange -- not all 
>of the GIF89 animation shows.
>
>Other than BrowserCam, I don't have the capability to view how 
>various IEs handles the animation. In IE 7, it appears to work, but 
>in IE 6 I don't see anything. But again, this is via BrowserCam's 
>remote and as such I'm not sure I'm getting an accurate view.


Hi Tedd,

On my WinXP laptop it works fine in Firefox 2 but in IE 6 the bird 
appears intermittently.  As the page is loading the bird appears 
momentarily over near the tree but disappears right away (probably as 
soon as the animation begins).  It reappears twice on its trip across 
my monitor doing an upward glide -- although of course it's supposed 
to be gliding down after having flapped up, hinting at a loss of 
synchrony between the GIF animation and the javascript animation.

Good luck,
Paul