GIF files...

[HAVOK]

So how do you get these cool animated gif's to work? I tried copying and pasting some url's and they don't work, what am I doing wrong?

[Rickety Rob]

So how do you get these cool animated gif's to work? I tried copying and pasting some url's and they don't work, what am I doing wrong?

You probably already did this but maybe try it in the video upload link.

[HAVOK]

http://rgifs.gifbin.com/1234525508_ben_stiller_-_do_it.gif

This is what I get with the video link....

[Rickety Rob]

Smoke would probably be the best candidate to help you out on this

[MaximusR3]

I came across this issue as well, and here are my observations:




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when you link an image and leave the retrieve and reference locally option checked, it changes all pictures into JPEGS, therefore no transparent backgrounds or animation.....






uncheck that option however and.....

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3466/5806188813_56ee11acc1_o.gif



I could be totally wrong and it's just coincidence though lol


as an added note about the particular image you were trying to link, the host site is not allowing you to link it anyways so you're out of luck regardless with that one unless it's only temporary that they disabled hotlinking

[HAVOK]

I came across this issue as well, and here are my observations:




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when you link an image and leave the retrieve and reference locally option checked, it changes all pictures into JPEGS, therefore no transparent backgrounds or animation.....






uncheck that option however and.....

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3466/5806188813_56ee11acc1_o.gif



I could be totally wrong and it's just coincidence though lol


as an added note about the particular image you were trying to link, the host site is not allowing you to link it anyways so you're out of luck regardless with that one unless it's only temporary that they disabled hotlinking

So basically what your saying is: It's totally not my fault! Lol

[HAVOK]

Thanks Max...side question: how did you find out the website isn't allowing me to post this gif?

[HAVOK]

<a href="http://sunglasses.name"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/KOY7H.gif" alt="designer name sunglasses"/></a>

[HAVOK]

Maybe it's just a tapatalk issue cause I'm still getting nothing

[HAVOK]

<a href="http://sunglasses.name"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/KOY7H.gif" alt="designer name sunglasses"/></a>

Keeps doing this^^ WTF?

[HAVOK]

Whatever. I give up trying to do this on my fucking phone. It won't even let me post a URL video link cause it keeps scaling out the option.

[MaximusR3]

yeah no clue how thinks work with tapatalk, the method i described works with a regular browser and that's all I can tell you.

I saw that the site was disabling hotlinking when i tried to open the link to your image and it pulled up this:
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the second picture you were trying to do would work but it's showing the whole html code for some reason:confused:

[smoke]

max hit it on the head.

referencing local, means the site will contact the remote site, and download a copy of the image, and reference it locally.

for animated gifs, any changes to the gif itself, will result in the animation not working.

in terms of images themselves, you need to be sure that your only coping the url to the specific image.. there can be surrounding markup, for a link to another webpage, so you need to make sure your getting just the image, and not all the other stuff around it.

take a look at this markup. The orange highlighted link is the direct link to the image. the rest of the code around it, is a link to another site.


<a href="iamawebsite.com"><img src="http://www.iamadifferentimagehostingsite.com/folder/image.jpg"></a>

[HAVOK]

max hit it on the head.

referencing local, means the site will contact the remote site, and download a copy of the image, and reference it locally.

for animated gifs, any changes to the gif itself, will result in the animation not working.

in terms of images themselves, you need to be sure that your only coping the url to the specific image.. there can be surrounding markup, for a link to another webpage, so you need to make sure your getting just the image, and not all the other stuff around it.

take a look at this markup. The orange highlighted link is the direct link to the image. the rest of the code around it, is a link to another site.


<a href="iamawebsite.com"><img src="http://www.iamadifferentimagehostingsite.com/folder/image.jpg"></a>

Ok, I'll try this out later on after I get home. Thanks web gurus!