Re: RE: html COMMANDS - HOW TO FLASH GIFS/JPEGS

I'm aware of two ways of doing this: either use the "animation" feature built into GIFs, or
use the "refresh" feature in HTML.


You can use a shareware program to compile several GIFs into a single file, having time delays between displays of the images.
The shareware is called GIF CONSTRUCTION SET FOR WINDOWS, from Alchemy Mindworks, available at
Mindworkshop.  This program can construct crude animations or slideshows.  The later
versions of Netscape and Explorer will view them, but old versions and other browsers might not have full
GIF89 compliance and will display only the first GIF.  ALso, Netscape  will display the continuous-loop feature, while
Explorer will play the sequence once and then stop.


The other way to play a sequence of GIF/JPEG is to put a "refresh" command in the head
of your webpage, which makes a new webpage be automatically loaded after a selectable delay.  The command for this is:

meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://your.domain.com/page3.html", all inside angle-brackets.

Replace the "3" with however many seconds delay you wish, and replace the "your domain" url with the url of the next webpage
to be displayed.  This of course will reload an entire new webpage, not just the GIF/JPEG, but you can
make a minimal page which contains only the GIF/JPEG.  The newly-loaded page can have another "refresh" command, and crude animation
 can be had (or at least a slideshow)  You can speed things up by having all your
GIFs far down on the first page, so they will be buffered by the browser and will load fast on the next page.  If you set the delay to 0,
 the next page will start loading as soon as the current one is done.