IE7/IE8 and frozen animated gifs

Question

I\'m quite sure this is an old problem.

This is how i render my animated gif:

Answer 1

I ran into this once. If I tried to use JavaScript to show a little loading throbber as the browser moved to a page that was going to take a while to load, IE wouldn't animate the GIF. I solved it by putting the loading throbber directly into the HTML (not inserted via JavaScript) in a hidden div:

    
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and then using JavaScript to toggle the visibility of the div after a short delay (this is using an older version of the Prototype library, but you get the idea):

That function is triggered in the form's submit button:

So instead of delaying the src attribute change, leave it alone and just delay the call to your entire showLoading() function. Good luck!