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reading this in my RSS reader i didn't understand it all. Seems like it couldn't show the GIFs correctly. On the web site I finally understand it.

• jaimebuelta 13y ago
  Properly displaying animated GIFs seems to be an "advanced feature". I have seen a lot of apps that are not able to do it properly. I guess it depends on the render engine they use to display images...
  • mikeash 13y ago
    Lots of apps implicitly put images in a "never changes after the initial render" category. Retrofitting what is effectively a movie format into that can be interesting.
  • ams6110 13y ago
    Some people who started browsing the web back in the days of GeoCities also reflexively disable GIF animation in their browser preferences.
  • fredoralive 13y ago
    In this case it's the RSS feed itself, not the reader. The image in the feed is just a static PNG: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/frequency.png http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/frequency.png Which did somewhat confuse me as well until I looked at the actual website.
  • rwallace 13y ago
    As far as I'm concerned, displaying animated GIFs is a bug not a feature (its use here notwithstanding), and I'd report it as one if I thought the Chrome team would take bug reports from the likes of me, so if your viewer doesn't have that bug, be happy!