Gif's running slow with Safari

[Little Yamori]

I realize that this might be pushing the AS How do I topic, but...

I've recently done a lot of work on my beta website with animated gifs, all done in Anime Studio. They work great when on a desktop using the standard browser choices, but on mobile, specifically iPhones and iPads using Safari, the gifs run at about 25% speed. It seems to be a Safari specific issue, so that just may be the way the cookie crumbles, but I was wondering if anyone knew of any work arounds. I considered doubling or tripling the speed of the gifs, and/or cutting out frames, which might work for mobile, but then I would screw up the desktop speed.

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Thx

LY

[slowtiger]

Unfortunately there's no cure of that.

Fact is that GIFs run at different speeds everywhere, dependent on device, operating system, browser, and browser version. Since there's no way to include different frame rates in one GIF, the workaround is to prepare some differently timed GIFs and try to guess the aforementioned parameters with advanced CSS coding, to deliver the best fitting content to each user. Still this means the coder needs to know which parameter combinations need a special handling.

If the animation is really that timing-critical, web developers would not use GIFs but video files, or, of possible, re-build the animation in HTML 5.

[Little Yamori]

Thanks slowtiger,

That's what I feared, but thanks for the detailed info. I'll look into the Html 5 option.

LY