68300 - Animated GIFs are not displayed

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Michail Romanov]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
Tag info as follows: [tag: -r Netscape_6_0_OEM_BRANCH -D "01/19/2001 10:00:00" 	
	 PSM: 1.4 (PSM_1_4_N6) & NSS 3.1 (NSS_3_1_RTM tag)

Animated GIFs inserted into the message body are not displayed in the compose 
window. They appear for a moment and then are substituted by Alt text. However 
it works fine in Netscape 4.x. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start new message
2. In the menu go to Insert->Image..., choose animated GIF via "Choose file" 
button, and insert some Alt text; notice that GIF is shown correctly on the 
bottom of the "Image Properties" dialog window
3. Press "ok" button
4. Notice that image appeared in the message body for a moment and then is 
substituted by Alt text.

Actual Results:  Animated GIFs are not displayed in the Compose window

Expected Results:  All images should be displayed correctly as in Netscape 4.x.

Comment 1

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

what happens if you do this in editor?  (I'm guessing we do the same thing).

akkanna, is this by design?

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

No HTML editor that I've ever used shows animated gifs (Netscape 4.7x didn't, 
FrontPage 98/2000 doesn't and I'm pretty sure Dreamweaver doesn't, either).

Comment 3

[Akkana Peck]

The editor intentionally calls the imglib API to stop image animation.  As to
the first frame briefly being shown, then changing to the alt tag, that's
something imglib is doing; I'm not sure if it's intentional (my guess is no) and
it's mentioned in bug 65016 (sometimes stopping the animation also results in a
crash, apparently a race condition involving the image load being cancelled but
not cleaned up properly).  I'm hoping that when that bug is fixed, animated
images will display their first frames (or at least as much of the first frame
as was loaded before we discovered it was an animated image).

Comment 4

[Michail Romanov]

Please try it in Messenger of Netscape 4.x on any platform (I tried on NT  in 
Netscape 4.7 and Solaris 2.7 in Netscape 4.61) - it works fine.

Comment 5

[Thao Tran]

Tested in Windows 2000, Mozilla Build 2001041004.
Bug DID NOT occur.  I was able to attach an animated GIF and send successfully
without the image being replaced by the text.

Comment 6

[Thao Tran]

Tested in Windows 2000, Mozilla Build 2001041004.
Bug DID NOT occur.  I was able to attach an animated GIF and send successfully
without the image being replaced by the text.

Comment 7

[James Paige]

I am fairly certain that this is a dup of bug 73328 which has already been
fixed, explaining why the symptoms are gone.

Comment 8

[R.K.Aa.]

Testing with a day old CVS build, Linux:
Animated gif inserts and remains (unanimated) in html mailcompose.
WFM.

Comment 9

[basic]

is this a platform/os==all bug?

Comment 10

[Michael Gabriel]

anything new one this one ? somebody try with a newer build ?

Comment 11

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> wfm