Animated Gif Netscape Navigator
This is a port of netscape 7 x all silver buttons with a more subtle look.
Animated gif netscape navigator. 3 0 button with rolling 3 0 bleeding netscape 3 0 button netscape 3 0 button blowing up. As an animation platform the gif format is incredibly limited. This isn t art it s nostalgia.
By paddy johnson on november 7 2014 gif of the day. Gif of the day netscape navigator. And ms internet explorer on rotating metal sign netscape now.
In september 1995 netscape navigator 2 0 added the ability for animated gifs to loop. The netscape navigator logo. Peek inside a gif file sometime.
Netscape looping application extension is the most popular application extension block that tells browser or other gif viewer to loop the entire animated gif file. Embedded java javascript frames. And it s nostalgia i like.
The feature of storing multiple images in one file accompanied by control data is used extensively on the web to produce simple animations. Comments on this entry are closed. Every animated gif contains a reference to netscape navigator 2 0 a browser that has been obsolete for fifteen years.
Netscape waits to display the images until it has loaded them all that takes a while. This is a new official skin developed by the guys behind the new netscape 9 beta browser. Netscape navigator was the name of netscape s web browser from versions 1 0 through 4 8.
Gif animations produced with gif gif gif are automatically displayed by web browsers such as netscape navigator and microsoft internet explorer without requiring any add ons plug ins or helper applications. This extension block was first supported in navigator 2 0 beta 4. Do not use internet explorer 4 or lower as they have a problem viewing numerous animated gifs on the same page they run together and get all screwed up.
The first version of the browser was released in 1994 known as mosaic and then mosaic netscape until a legal challenge from the national center for supercomputing applications makers of ncsa mosaic which many of netscape s founders had spent time developing which led to the name change to netscape. It s a very nice green ish theme and a good excuse not to try the actual netscape 9 browser that also uses the mozilla firefox code as a base. Gif gif gif ggg is a small shareware program for producing gif animations from screen captures.
It is especially useful for producing animated software demonstrations or tutorials. 3 0 button netscape now. Gif of the day.
Netscape 2 0 you see defined one of those application extension blocks. Netscape 2 introduced a slew of new features. Best viewed with netscape navigator or microsoft internet explorer netscape now.
Gif was one of the first two image formats commonly used on web sites the other being the black and white xbm.
