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My stupid RSS reader showed this to me as a single, static image. I wouldn't see it in animation if it wasn't posted here, so thanks a lot for posting!

by gkya 13y ago

ygra 13y ago
It's not your reader. The feed just contains a single, static PNG image.
a3n 13y ago
Firefox has an odd RSS reader, called Live Bookmarks, which leverages the browser's bookmarks feature. I use it to access my tab categories in pinboard; each tab has an RSS feed, and each combination of tabs has an RSS feed. When you click on a feed to subscribe, it places the feed in the bookmark system and when you see it in your bookmarks it shows an RSS icon. To see what happens with this XKCD, I cleared my cache and history and everything, then subscribed to the feed, then clicked on the latest entry in that feed, Frequency. It was interesting to watch it develop. It starts as a grid of elements, each displaying the word FREQUENCY. (You can see the same effect by forcing a reload of the page, but I wanted to see how Live Bookmarks would display the page, hence the tedious trip report to this point). Each element's gif gets turned on row by row and (I think) column by colum. The first row is turned on immediately, the second soon after, and the rest of the FREQUENCY elements are transformed into animated gifs little by little, row by row. If I close the tab and come back to it, they're all animating right away. So that's how Firefox Live Bookmarks RSS reader handles this page. Side note: some of you will have seen the effect of transforming from a grid of FREQUENCY elements to animated GIFS right away when you viewed the page. Others, like me, might never have seen it. I'm one of those people who queues up a handful of tabs to read, and then goes through the tabs one by one. By the time I got to my Frequency tab it had already gone through its transformation.

My stupid RSS reader showed this to me as a single, static image. I wouldn't see it in animation if it wasn't posted here, so thanks a lot for posting!

by gkya 13y ago

My stupid RSS reader showed this to me as a single, static image. I wouldn't see it in animation if it wasn't posted here, so thanks a lot for posting!

ygra 13y ago

It's not your reader. The feed just contains a single, static PNG image.

a3n 13y ago

Firefox has an odd RSS reader, called Live Bookmarks, which leverages the browser's bookmarks feature. I use it to access my tab categories in pinboard; each tab has an RSS feed, and each combination of tabs has an RSS feed. When you click on a feed to subscribe, it places the feed in the bookmark system and when you see it in your bookmarks it shows an RSS icon. To see what happens with this XKCD, I cleared my cache and history and everything, then subscribed to the feed, then clicked on the latest entry in that feed, Frequency. It was interesting to watch it develop. It starts as a grid of elements, each displaying the word FREQUENCY. (You can see the same effect by forcing a reload of the page, but I wanted to see how Live Bookmarks would display the page, hence the tedious trip report to this point). Each element's gif gets turned on row by row and (I think) column by colum. The first row is turned on immediately, the second soon after, and the rest of the FREQUENCY elements are transformed into animated gifs little by little, row by row. If I close the tab and come back to it, they're all animating right away. So that's how Firefox Live Bookmarks RSS reader handles this page. Side note: some of you will have seen the effect of transforming from a grid of FREQUENCY elements to animated GIFS right away when you viewed the page. Others, like me, might never have seen it. I'm one of those people who queues up a handful of tabs to read, and then goes through the tabs one by one. By the time I got to my Frequency tab it had already gone through its transformation.