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From: cq547@freent.toronto.on.ca (llizard)
Subject: Re: Joan's Animated Pixie (Hold spacebar down)
Date: 1997/04/23
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Veronica Karlsson <e93-vkn@sm.luth.se.nospam>wrote:
> 
> llizard wrote:
> > Well, rats! That is the second spacebar animation that didn't work for
> > me. What a great idea though. When I hold the space bar down, the thing
> > goes way too fast. Maybe if the picture being animated was smaller it
> > would work? Too bad. It seemed like a good alternative to those Java
> > things some of us have done and few are able to see.
[snip]
> I think it would probably work if the picture was BIGGER..... (and
> probably the best size would be very different for different
> computers...)
> 
> When I tried holding the space-bar down I accidentally flew too far and
> marked a large number of unread messaged read and had some trouble
> finding my way back...
[snip]
> 
> I think the new java method is the best so far (of the ones that I have
> seen) and I also think that in a couple of years java will become more
> common.
> 
> I think our greatest problem here is still compatibility between
> different types of computers.
> Veronica Karlsson
> ( e93-vkn@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )
> ( llizard's animation site:  http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/docs/ )

Big or small, the space bar animations just don't work for me.  A fellow
sent me an altered version of the small one I had tried, altered by
adding a whole lot of frames. I gather that it worked for him. But all
that happened here was that a whole lot of frames whooshed by and sent
me to the next e-mail in the in-box. So I have to agree that the Java
scripted ones work the best by far.

You're right. It's a shame that Mac/IBM/Microsoft Explorer are so busy
competing and insulting each other that they can't see the merits of
making themselves compatible with each other.


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