Here's
an animated gif linked on my web site. I did not get this from nitecruzr'sThe
Real Blogger Status as that one is not animating.
Now this is the same gif uploaded to Blogger. Let's see if it still works. (Sometimes the second picture disappears from Blogger.)
So doing a little more research, nitecruzr's version is not animated, i.e., it's single layer. Here's the info window from The Gimp.
Now here's the info from the one I grabbed on the Internet. Notice the RGB Color in nitecruzr's vs. the Indexed Color in the web version and 1 layers vs. 10 layers.
Since nitecruzr's does not have the animation layers I don't think it will recover and become animated at a later date.
Now, I've saved the second gif, which was animated when I uploaded it, to my computer and it is no longer animated, i.e., once Blogger handles it, it becomes just a picture.
Studying this a little further, I used a hex editor to check the file type that is at the beginning of the files. The animated gif that works has hex: 47 49 46 38 39 61 which is GIF89a. Once the file is uploaded to Blogger it stops animating and the type is hex: 98 50 4E 47 which is .PNG. Conclusion: the uploading causes the file to be changed.
So, at least animated, and maybe all gifs want to be loaded on another host.
Tom
3 comments:
Just adding a litttle info. This loss of image information may explain why when I upload a transparency to Blogger it is not transparent. That is even though when I upload and link the same image on my web site, it works as I expect.
Tom
I have the same problem. Animated gifs are not animated anymore and gifs with a transparent background are not transparent anymore. Have you reported this problem to blogger already? Because I think we should since last week everything was working fine. I was able to upload images with a transparent background and to upload animated gifs without any problems.
I haven't - I suppose I'm not adequately affected to take action. The problem is not getting them into the post successfully, as I have both, the problem is when the gifs are uploaded to Blogger (picassaweb) they are converted to a different format.
I mostly use the animated/transparent when testing and I do have a web site I can host the images on when needed.
Tom
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