<ANIM> Tag, Anyone?

R. Brian Manley

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May 12, 1995, 3:00:00 AM5/12/95

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I recently visited a page of a netscape employee. He had a nice page, so I looked at his source. Well, to my surprise, he has
some sort of <ANIM> tag, with a mile of garbage after it. I've HEARD that the tag will allow you to change the animated netscape
icon to some other image on the X version.

Is this true? How does it work? Can it be done on any platform, or just X? I mailed him about it, and he refuses to let me know.
Anyone else seen this?

Regards,
Brian

Michael Bauser

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May 13, 1995, 3:00:00 AM5/13/95

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In article <5125466$manl...@nicoh.com>

manl...@nicoh.com (R. Brian Manley) writes:

>I recently visited a page of a netscape employee. He had a nice page, so I looked at his source. Well, to my surprise, he has
>some sort of <ANIM> tag, with a mile of garbage after it. I've HEARD that the tag will allow you to change the animated netscape
>icon to some other image on the X version.

<anim>? <ANIM>? They made an <ANIM> tag?

Oh, that's it. No more. Somebody kill them, kill them now.

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Michael Bauser <mba...@kentvm.kent.edu>
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Achille Hui, the Day Dreamer

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May 14, 1995, 3:00:00 AM5/14/95

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+---In <3p4d15$6...@shell1.best.com>---
| va...@best.com (Ryan Watkins) writes...
+---------
|
| And Michael Bauser<MBA...@kentvm.kent.edu> spake unto the masses:

| >manl...@nicoh.com (R. Brian Manley) writes:
| >

| >>I recently visited a page of a netscape employee. He had a nice page, ...
| >>some sort of <ANIM> tag, with a mile of garbage after it. I've HEARD ...

| Someone please hand these people a clue or two.
|
What sort of clue? I don't have any clue in how to kill them (apart from
all the obvious means like hiring a hitman, blah, blah, blah). In any event,
I don't know what the <ANIM> does, except it has nothing to do with jwz's
compass hack.
------------------------------------achille (eill...@drizzle.stanford.edu)
#include <stdio.h>
main(){int c,s=0;char b[1030],*k= "/???/" ,*p=b;while((c=getchar())!=
EOF){if(c!=k[s]){s=(c=='/')?1:0;}else if(++s==5){p[-3]=p[-2]=p[-1]=c=s=
0;}*p++=c;if(p== &b[1030]){fwrite(b,1024,1,stdout);memcpy(b,&b[1024],6)
;p=&b[6];}}if(p>b)fwrite(b,p-b,1,stdout);exit(0);}

Ryan Watkins

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May 14, 1995, 3:00:00 AM5/14/95

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And Achille Hui, the Day Dreamer <eill...@drizzle.StanFord.EDU> spake unto
the masses:

>| ><anim>? <ANIM>? They made an <ANIM> tag?
>| >
>| >Oh, that's it. No more. Somebody kill them, kill them now.
>|
>| Someone please hand these people a clue or two.
>|
> What sort of clue? I don't have any clue in how to kill them (apart from
>all the obvious means like hiring a hitman, blah, blah, blah). In any event,
>I don't know what the <ANIM> does, except it has nothing to do with jwz's
>compass hack.

Correct.

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Ryan Watkins

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May 14, 1995, 3:00:00 AM5/14/95

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And Michael Bauser<MBA...@kentvm.kent.edu> spake unto the masses:
>manl...@nicoh.com (R. Brian Manley) writes:
>

>>I recently visited a page of a netscape employee. He had a nice page, so I looked at his source. Well, to my surprise, he has
>>some sort of <ANIM> tag, with a mile of garbage after it. I've HEARD that the tag will allow you to change the animated netscape

>>icon to some other image on the X version.
>

><anim>? <ANIM>? They made an <ANIM> tag?
>
>Oh, that's it. No more. Somebody kill them, kill them now.

Someone please hand these people a clue or two.

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Bryan D. Boyle

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May 16, 1995, 3:00:00 AM5/16/95

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|>I recently visited a page of a netscape employee. He had a nice page, so I looked at his source. Well, to my surprise, he has
|>some sort of <ANIM> tag, with a mile of garbage after it. I've HEARD that the tag will allow you to change the animated netscape
|>icon to some other image on the X version.
|>

|>Is this true? How does it work? Can it be done on any platform, or just X? I mailed him about it, and he refuses to let me know.
|>Anyone else seen this?

It is just a smokescreen. How the icon changes:

if the url has a subdir of /jwz/ in it, it will change the icon to the rotating
compass. That is all.

the anim tag is just something he put in his page to make the rest of us go
off on a wild goose chase...

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Dave Lutz

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May 18, 1995, 3:00:00 AM5/18/95

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Don't know about Netscape, but OS/2 Web Explorer supports the <animate></animate>
tags. It allows you to change the cyber-skyline to whatever animation you want.

Syntax is:

The client must have "Load Graphics" checked for this to work.

I've seen a spinning Elvis among others! :-)

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