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Serious question: why use this instead of an animated GIF?

• joezydeco 17y ago
  Looks like you have a little more control over it, for one thing. Speed, pause/resume, etc.
• silvestrov 17y ago
  Faster to load: no separate http request. Graphics is sub-pixel anti-aliased. GIFs are not.
  • Groxx 17y ago
    anti-aliased: that just made me test something, and yep, it also scales with zooming the page, which completely eclipses using GIFs to do things this can do. Hooray non-pixellation!
  • kilian 17y ago
    Also, try changing the background color ;) anti-aliased opacity!
• Groxx 17y ago
  Because making animated GIFs is frackin' hard for non-artsy-types (and even then, they're not easy), and they can't be modified easily or quickly compared to this. edit: imagine, for example, making 100 different GIFs to handle spinners all over where you want different colors, different sizes, speeds, etc etc. With this, it's just a stylesheet tweak, and they cascade so you can base it off what it's in.
  • PanMan 17y ago
    I'm quite happy with the results of http://www.ajaxload.info/ http://www.ajaxload.info/ and usually use it for my spinning gif's.
    • callahad 17y ago
      Oh god. I just went there, selected some options, hit "generate it!" and waited patiently for a few minutes before I realized that I was staring at the very spinner I had requested.
      • mcantor 17y ago
        "Man. This site takes FOREVER."
    • Semiapies 17y ago
      Never be afraid to outsource trivialities.