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[Red Hat Linux User]

how do you change the animated icon (N)on your homepage to that little
logo (Compass) you have????
will you gleefully ignore me???

[Sam Trenholme]

>how do you change the animated icon (N)on your homepage to that little
>logo (Compass) you have????

Well,

I noticed the following:

* The ANIM tag has some crypto stuff there. This is something that
Netscape only wants their own web pages to control.

* There was another web page with a modified animation of the Mozilla
creature coming up and breathing fire. Also a Netscape web page.

* Netscape changes what this logo does in OEM packagings of Netscape

* The animation is in the Netscape binary, and not downloaded from the
web page. There are probably only a couple other Animations in the
binary (the fire-breathing Mozilla being the only other one I have seen)

* I vaguely remember people talking about finding the standard animated
sequence in the Netscape binary and changing it. Sounds like an
alt.hackers thing.

- Sam

--
"You can...turn sadness into laughter" -- Sunscreem, _Love_U_More_

[Sam Trenholme]

>how do you change the animated icon (N)on your homepage to that little
>logo (Compass) you have????

Ignore my last posting. The ANIM tag is purely bogus. Instead, what jwz
did was hardcode Netscape to change the animation if you choose the URL
http://people.netscape.com/jwz. This was verified by me changing
/etc/hosts to have people.netscape.com point to my own machine. The jwz
URL gave a 404, but the thingy in the upper right hand corner became the
spinning compass.

The fire-breathing Mozilla was probably similarly encoded.

- Sam

More info:

http://looney.physics.sunysb.edu/~daffy/jwz/cool.html

[David Hallowell]

Sam Trenholme wrote:
>
> >how do you change the animated icon (N)on your homepage to that little
> >logo (Compass) you have????
>
> Ignore my last posting. The ANIM tag is purely bogus. Instead, what jwz
> did was hardcode Netscape to change the animation if you choose the URL
> http://people.netscape.com/jwz. This was verified by me changing
> /etc/hosts to have people.netscape.com point to my own machine. The jwz
> URL gave a 404, but the thingy in the upper right hand corner became the
> spinning compass.
>
> The fire-breathing Mozilla was probably similarly encoded.
>

Only seems to work in the Linux (and other UNIX) versions of Netscape.
The animated Mozilla can be permanently activated (well at least per
session) by going to about:mozilla first. But you probably knew that.
--
David Hallowell
Linux @ Cable Internet
http://wkweb4.cableinet.co.uk/brownale/linux/