Animated .Gifs are a cute, requiring low bandwidth, way of decorating our blogs. Some contain records of memorable events. Using one below I decorated my Musings blog, in commemoration of the death of a very bad guy.
Recently, many such images stopped working, in multiple blogs all across the Blogosphere.
This is the only .Gif that I have, that currently works as published natively through Blogger (using Picasa).
(Compare with the version below, which will animate.)
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RmH1vJ_2KfI/AAAAAAAAAag/sR1MkaWHoPs/s1600-h/Mona+Lisa.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pzC_7PLtN-0/RmH1vJ_2KfI/
AAAAAAAAAag/sR1MkaWHoPs/s320/Mona+Lisa.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071604845882255858" /></a>
I know that this was a Photoshop product, but I still had to include this one. As originally uploaded in January of this year, it worked then. Later, it stopped working.
It's possible that we can use Google Documents as a host for animated photos.
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RmH1vJ_2KfI/AAAAAAAAAag/sR1MkaWHoPs/s1600-h/Mona+Lisa.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://docs.google.com/FilePage?id=dcmbd5fh_4c2f6pvhw" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071604845882255858" /></a>
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AAAAAAAAAaY/0rAuaxEnLmk/s1600-h/cat+juggling.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://docs.google.com/FilePage?id=dcmbd5fh_6vq9xmqcg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071604845882255842" /></a>
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Recently, many such images stopped working, in multiple blogs all across the Blogosphere.
This is the only .Gif that I have, that currently works as published natively through Blogger (using Picasa).
(Compare with the version below, which will animate.)
<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pzC_7PLtN-0/
RmH1vJ_2KfI/AAAAAAAAAag/sR1MkaWHoPs/s1600-h/Mona+Lisa.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pzC_7PLtN-0/RmH1vJ_2KfI/
AAAAAAAAAag/sR1MkaWHoPs/s320/Mona+Lisa.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071604845882255858" /></a>
I know that this was a Photoshop product, but I still had to include this one. As originally uploaded in January of this year, it worked then. Later, it stopped working.
It's possible that we can use Google Documents as a host for animated photos.
- Upload an animated .gif file to Google Documents.
- Publish the uploaded photo, selecting "Post To blog".
- Make the blog site settings, as desired, when posting.
- Find the URL of the newly uploaded file.
- Add the URL, as the "img src=" tag, in your blog post.
- Publish your new blog post.
<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pzC_7PLtN-0/
RmH1vJ_2KfI/AAAAAAAAAag/sR1MkaWHoPs/s1600-h/Mona+Lisa.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://docs.google.com/FilePage?id=dcmbd5fh_4c2f6pvhw" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071604845882255858" /></a>
<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pzC_7PLtN-0/RmH1vJ_2KeI/
AAAAAAAAAaY/0rAuaxEnLmk/s1600-h/cat+juggling.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://docs.google.com/FilePage?id=dcmbd5fh_6vq9xmqcg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071604845882255842" /></a>
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Comments
So, the animation breakage is related to Blogger's handling of the image in storage. I think your gifs will never get better and start animating again. When I downloaded and looked at saddam's cat, there was no animation information, it's just a nice picture.
I downloaded Saddam's cat from somewhere else and it animates in a post if it is on my web site. If I upload it to Blogger, it stops working. I did an example at Animated GIF test.
Tom
Saddams Cat, in its original location, was working fine when uploaded 1/22. It stopped working later, and I did nothing to make it stop working. It's a .gif.
Anyone have any ideas here?
Michael
www.MichaelBassDesigns.com
As I wrote, Blogger is aware of the problem. Until it's fixed, we'll have to host animated .gifs from either Google Documents, or Picasa.