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please prohibit uploading animated character icons

(i am not 100% serious here but)

First: where has this been used?
Second: … I'm not sure how we'd do that except by prohibiting .gif extensions? And also probably .jpg since sometimes they're animated? Possibly by just using a gif with a jpg extension, but I'm pretty sure they exist somewhere. Or if this can be done with MIME types maybe.

Edit: ah but yes generally I think animated icons would be annoying.

Well, you'd have to actually inspect the contents of the image, yes.

I'm just annoyed.

here it is very distracting

If you use firefox or a browser based on firefox, you can set "image.animation_mode" == "none". In FireFox it's about.config, typing "anim" will find it.

I use Conkeror and in my rc file I have: session_pref("image.animation_mode", "none"); /* disable gifs */

It is pretty great. I see only the first frame of gifs.


If you don'T want it set to none you could also set it to "once" which lets you see the animation one time and then it goes still.

Shoal wrote:If you use firefox or a browser based on firefox, you can set "image.animation_mode" == "none". In FireFox it's about.config, typing "anim" will find it.

I use Conkeror and in my rc file I have: session_pref("image.animation_mode", "none"); /* disable gifs */

It is pretty great. I see only the first frame of gifs.


If you don'T want it set to none you could also set it to "once" which lets you see the animation one time and then it goes still.

For more options than this, you can also try the toggle animated gifs addon for firefox - it has a bunch of options so you can have it set up however you like; I have it set up so that all gifs are paused by default, and only one can animate at a time (the last one I moused over) and there are controls that let me pause or restart even that, it's very nice. (I don't have a rec for Chrome but I know there's at least one vaguely similar addon out there for it.)

...what am I missing, I don't see an animated icon? I'm guessing it was deleted?

I could disallow .gif images, I suppose, .jpg doesn't support animation, but like Throne said you can do it by misnaming a .gif and I'm not sure how good my content type checks are.

Postgres and MySQL are both refusing to connect. Restarting the app didn't help, looking into site status, something's wrong with Heroku as near as I can tell.

Hm. Maybe restarting the app helps? We'll never know. Graphs are coming back down, at least, here's hoping.

I bet there’s a gem to tell if an image is animated, or a easy to call out to some ImageMagick program. I think PNGs can also be animated, so just disallowing gifs might not be enough and definitely is too broad.

Alternately, see freezeframe.js (via Stack Overflow), but I think that sacrifices a tiny amount of browser support. I know nothing more about it than what was on the SO page, but from that it seems like a better solution than completely disallowing the images.