AOL Press

[Britannica]

My 12 yr-old granddaughter is having great fun and some success with
AOLPress. One disappointment is that animated gif images that work
correctly when loaded into IE5 don't work when incorporated into a web
page created with AOLPress.

I'm a complete dunce at HTML so can't help her. Is this a problem with
the age of the software ? - and if so is there any more 'modern'
equivalent to AOLPress that is as simple to use ??

Thanks

 

[Jim Daniel]

My 12 yr-old granddaughter is having great fun and some success with
AOLPress. One disappointment is that animated gif images that work
correctly when loaded into IE5 don't work when incorporated into a web
page created with AOLPress.

I'm a complete dunce at HTML so can't help her. Is this a problem with
the age of the software ? - and if so is there any more 'modern'
equivalent to AOLPress that is as simple to use ??

Thanks

Brittanica,
Are you saying that the animated gif doesn't work within AOL Press (the
web page editor)? If so (and I'm not sure about AOL Press) it's not
unusual for the animated gif not so show as animated in a WYSISYG
editor. If you're saying that pages made with AOL Press, incorporating
an animated gif, and viewed in IE or NS don't show the animation, then
I'm not really sure what the problem is. The code for inserting an
animated gif is pretty much the same as for a non-animated one, so the
animation should work regardless of the software used to generate the
page. Have a look at the code (View, Page Source... in a web browser)
for the page where the animated gif works and where it doesn't work.
See if they're the same. If so, the gif should show animation in both
cases. Hope this is helpful.
Jim Daniel

 

[Britannica]

This may be because such things generally do NOT work in a program's
viewer, which is generally *not* a browser.

To check if they work, make the page with the animation included, save it,
and then look at it with the browser.

Thanks guys - we were expecting the editor to show the animation. It
works fine when the page is viewed in IE.

 

[Blinky the Shark]

Thanks guys - we were expecting the editor to show the animation. It
works fine when the page is viewed in IE.

How does it look in other browsers? I'm wondering how bad AOL stuff
probably is in terms of standards compliance.

 

[Mike Ring]

Why not Mozilla Composer? Netscape without the AOL stuff.

Could be, I'm miles out of date, it was netscape composer when I met it,
came bundled with navigator.

Using netscape was one of my early rebellions against Bill G;

Mike r

 

[M.L.]

Could be, I'm miles out of date, it was netscape composer when I met it,
came bundled with navigator.

Using netscape was one of my early rebellions against Bill G;

I don't see how coddling up to the AOL/Time-Warner empire is any
better.

 

[Mike Ring]

I don't see how coddling up to the AOL/Time-Warner empire is any
better.

I pointed out that I'm miles out of date - it wasn't then; it was MS's
competitor and underdog to IE and OE

Also

"I had AOLpress years ago, it was diabolical, and would not uninstall.

It took a kindly passing MVP to sort it out."

m r

 

[Blinky the Shark]

I don't see how coddling up to the AOL/Time-Warner empire is any
better.

Just a few years ago, Netscape had nothing to do with AOL. And "one of
my earliest rebellions" just might be a reference to something he did a
while back.

 

[Semolina Pilchard]

Thanks Blinky; just ordered a new computer but I'm sticking with 98SE FTTB
in the vain hope that some form of linux for wusses will come along before
I'm forced to go to XP.

So what's your problem with XP?

(Nice to have a local shop now, computer built for me, choose your own TFT
VDU with built-in speakers, shuttle box with the front panel changed to a
colour I liked better, 3 extra partitions, my old OS installed, money off
for re-using my old keyboard mouse and OS, its computer heaven)

Yeah, that's a nice way to avoid the benefits of scale and pay more
for an inferior box.

 

[Semolina Pilchard]

Tell that to all the poor souls with PC World, etc boxes.

Your argument would hold true if PC World were the only manufacturer
of PCs. I agree about their products, BTW.

(Nice nom de plume, though)

Why thank you, sir.