I know the colleagues well at the Dutch National Library
(Infoservices) responsible for the SURFNet pages.
I've forwarded this comment to them ...
Graham Jefcoate
British Library Research and Innovation Centre
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Subject: Re: Animated gifs
Author: Mr C A Rusbridge <[log in to unmask]> at Internet
Date: 7/31/96 1:36 PM
A message from Rachel Heery of UKOLN on another thread mentions the URL
for DESIRE:
> DESIRE:http://www.surfnet.nl/surfnet/projects/desire/
I have looked at this web page, and their logo is (I think) an animated
gif (http://www.surfnet.nl/surfnet/projects/desire/desirelogo.gif). This
thing has been set to loop back, re-loading itself when it reaches the
end of an animated sequence. I presume it's not re-loading a network copy
each time, but the damn thing is still at it, thrashing my hard disk in
the background even as I write this.
Am I alone in finding this an objectionable, even un-acceptable bit of
web practice?
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Chris Rusbridge
Programme Director, Electronic Libraries Programme
The Library, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
Phone 01203 524979 Fax 01203 524981
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