Can someone explain to me why the image on the Google home page with a description of "New Year's Day 2022" shows 2021 ? Is there some
explanation I'm missing ?

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Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

Spiros Bousbouras wrote:

Can someone explain to me why the image on the Google home page with a description of "New Year's Day 2022" shows 2021 ? Is there some
explanation I'm missing ?

I see a cracker with "2021" written on it, the animation then bursts open to reveal a big "2022" maybe you have javascript disabled?

Ah yes , I get it now. It's not a javascript issue but I was accessing Google with a text browser which opens a separate application for displaying images and that does not show the animation in GIFs .I should have figured it out myself.

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On 01/01/2022 11:03, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:

Can someone explain to me why the image on the Google home page with a description of "New Year's Day 2022" shows 2021 ? Is there some
explanation I'm missing ?

You haven't changed to duck duck go?

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Spiros Bousbouras wrote:

Can someone explain to me why the image on the Google home page with a description of "New Year's Day 2022" shows 2021 ? Is there some
explanation I'm missing ?

I see a cracker with "2021" written on it, the animation then bursts open to reveal a big "2022" maybe you have javascript disabled?

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On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 11:47:48 -0000 (UTC)
Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 11:31:43 +0000
Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

I see a cracker with "2021" written on it, the animation then bursts open to
reveal a big "2022" maybe you have javascript disabled?

Ah yes , I get it now. It's not a javascript issue but I was accessing Google with a text browser which opens a separate application for displaying images and that does not show the animation in GIFs .I should have figured it out myself.

And in order for the thread not to be a total waste of time here's how you
can see a GIF animation with GIMP : you open the menu "Filters" , choose "Animation" and then "Playback". You can even step frame by frame.

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Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 11:47:48 -0000 (UTC)
Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 11:31:43 +0000
Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

I see a cracker with "2021" written on it, the animation then bursts open to
reveal a big "2022" maybe you have javascript disabled?

Ah yes , I get it now. It's not a javascript issue but I was accessing Google
with a text browser which opens a separate application for displaying images >> and that does not show the animation in GIFs .I should have figured it out >> myself.

And in order for the thread not to be a total waste of time here's how you can see a GIF animation with GIMP : you open the menu "Filters" , choose "Animation" and then "Playback". You can even step frame by frame.

The "animate" program which is part of ImageMagick might be more
easily launched from a text web browser. I use it sometimes when
browsing in Dillo, which also just shows still frames from a GIF
animation. Though the clunky process of manually saving to file
and then opening separately with "animate" isn't usually worth the
reward.

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On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 00:18:57 -0000 (UTC)
not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:

Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 11:47:48 -0000 (UTC)
Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 11:31:43 +0000
Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

I see a cracker with "2021" written on it, the animation then bursts open to
reveal a big "2022" maybe you have javascript disabled?

Ah yes , I get it now. It's not a javascript issue but I was accessing Google
with a text browser which opens a separate application for displaying images
and that does not show the animation in GIFs .I should have figured it out >> myself.

And in order for the thread not to be a total waste of time here's how you can see a GIF animation with GIMP : you open the menu "Filters" , choose "Animation" and then "Playback". You can even step frame by frame.

The "animate" program which is part of ImageMagick might be more
easily launched from a text web browser. I use it sometimes when

Ah yes , I knew that there was some ImageMagick programme which would do the job but I didn't know which and I couldn't be bothered to search through the plethora of programmes in the suite to locate the correct one. I did try display <image> and saw the original image but then got a weird result
which I can't even describe.

browsing in Dillo, which also just shows still frames from a GIF
animation. Though the clunky process of manually saving to file
and then opening separately with "animate" isn't usually worth the
reward.

Doesn't dillo offer a way to automate this ? I use w3m which supports a ~/.w3m/mailcap file although the location is configurable. This has for example a line

image/gif; feh '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" ; description=GIF Image; nametemplate=%s.gif

If I change in the above feh to animate , I expect it will work. So
by pressing the appropriate key w3m saves the image in a temporary file
and opens it with the application you specify.

I do note that it's annoying that w3m does not use by default ~/.mailcap
and it took me a while until I figured out how to get w3m to use the
mailcap file that I wanted. But it does support them.

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In comp.misc, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:

Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:

And in order for the thread not to be a total waste of time here's how you >> can see a GIF animation with GIMP : you open the menu "Filters" , choose
"Animation" and then "Playback". You can even step frame by frame.

The "animate" program which is part of ImageMagick might be more
easily launched from a text web browser. I use it sometimes when
browsing in Dillo, which also just shows still frames from a GIF
animation. Though the clunky process of manually saving to file
and then opening separately with "animate" isn't usually worth the
reward.

Huh. gifview from the gifsicle package is my usualy go-to. Can't you
just make animate or gifview the default tool for the image/gif
mime-type?

(It has been years since I've tried to view an image from a text mode
browser, and those do tend to support external tools for various
non-HTML content types. Dillo isn't text mode, but I last
used it in pre 1.0, so I don't know what it does these days. My
recollection is that it focused on "correctness", so I'd suspect it's an option.)

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Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:

In comp.misc, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:

Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:

And in order for the thread not to be a total waste of time here's how you >>> can see a GIF animation with GIMP : you open the menu "Filters" , choose >>> "Animation" and then "Playback". You can even step frame by frame.

The "animate" program which is part of ImageMagick might be more
easily launched from a text web browser. I use it sometimes when
browsing in Dillo, which also just shows still frames from a GIF
animation. Though the clunky process of manually saving to file
and then opening separately with "animate" isn't usually worth the
reward.

Huh. gifview from the gifsicle package is my usualy go-to. Can't you
just make animate or gifview the default tool for the image/gif
mime-type?

So far as I can tell from the docs and example configuration file,
there's no support for launching applications to open downloaded
files, and there's no option in the "image" drop-down menu which
suggests it would try to open that image in an external viewer.
There is a plug-ins system, which launches an external program that
is expected to spit out a HTML document, but it wouldn't be suited
to conveniently opening downloaded files.

Such a feature would be handy for viewing PDFs, though in the case
of GIF animations I probably only want to watch one once a year at
most. It's annoying that it still downloads whole multi-megabyte
GIF "videos" just to show a still frame though, I'd call the lack
of animation support a feature if it also avoided downloading extra
data like that.

(It has been years since I've tried to view an image from a text mode browser, and those do tend to support external tools for various
non-HTML content types.

Yes, I've set that up before in eLinks and Lynx (if not others as
well). I remember thinking that all the MIME stuff adds more
confusion than it's worth compared to just setting file extension
associations like in the GUI file managers I use, but I'm sure that
some people out there love it.

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