Suspended animation

[Rik]

From time to time, certain animated avatars and smileys freeze on my machine, requiring a Ctrl+f5 to re-animate them. Most do not, however. The evil banana is a regular freezer for me, for example.

Has anyone got any ideas why some files would be affected and others not? I've examined the file and can't see anything about it which would explain it...

Puzzled of MK.

[john]

I've not noticed the problem myself Rik, is it affected by the type of browser you're using ? (I'm using IE 7)

[Rik]

No, John. I normally use FF, but have tried in IE6, IE7 and Opera. Evil B demonstrates his ability to hold a position in all of them... 

[cavillas]

Have you, somehow, upset Evil banana.  He is often negelcted and perhaps is fighting back.  It's ok on my machine.

[Rik]

Possibly when I re-shuffled the smileys, Alf, he became offended at his new position. I shall ask him. 

[Simon]

Are all the smileys hosted on the forum webspace, Rik?  If one or two of them are linked remotely, that might cause the issue.

[Rik]

No, they are all on the forum space, Simon. However, I'll maybe try re-loading the banana if others have had the problem too.

[Ted]

The evil-banana is omniscient Rik, re-shuffle at your own risk
Not an action i would undertake lightly

[Rik]

 

It's been a long day, Ted and I needed a laugh. Thank you. 

[psp83]

This can be caused by javascript. Have you updated your java lately?

[Rik]

Fairly recently, Paul, but I'll check. Certainly, I have updated since I first noticed the problem.

If you have time to explain, what's the interaction between the GIF file and Java?

[psp83]

I can't exactly remember why it does it but from what i can remember its the browser requesting some JS to run before the gif. Which then makes the gif stop.. It shouldn't happen but it does sometimes. mainly when JS has gone wrong or a script has not been coded correctly.

Also, it normally only happens when a link is clicked that requests/runs JS.

We've had this at work when coding JS for websites and its a pain to find the cause.

[Rik]

What's curious is that it only ever affects the one animated smiley. Computers! 

[john]

Computers!

Can't live with them, can't live without them 

[Gary]

Fairly recently, Paul, but I'll check. Certainly, I have updated since I first noticed the problem.

If you have time to explain, what's the interaction between the GIF file and Java?

What version of javascript are you running Rik? I have seen some people with IE7 which changes their javascript re-install one off the Microsoft website to one that was older, from IE6 days

[Rik]

Not sure without looking, Gary, but I checked for updates last night and it said I had the current version.

[Gary]

1.6.03 that will be, I get the same thing with evil banana as well Rik, now and then it freezes just noticed it 

[Gary]

  testing, working now, after clearing cache.

[Rik]

If they all did it, Gary, I could make more sense of it, but it seems to be just that one. I've had a look at the GIF, frame by frame, and I can't see anything there to explain it, so... 

Clearing the cache always works - but why? 

[Gary]

So how long till that banana stops being jigglingly evil I wonder? Maybe we should see how long it goes before we have to clear the cache  I hate things like this 

[Rik]

It may not even be a time issues, Gary, but the number of times it's pulled from the cache, say... Like you, it annoys me, because I can't explain it.

[Gary]

Snap, and it will perplex me now till I can find out why, and never try googling evil banana with preferences set to "do not filter my results" 

[Rik]

 

47,000 pages later...

[Gary]

47,000 pages later...

Watch out Rik, if Sue sees......

[Rik]

Sue sees everything, she's a woman.