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I’m working on a project that has an animated giff intro page - without having to put a click to enter button, is there a way to automatically go to the homepage when the animation has finished?. At the moment I’ve got it on a timeline to redirect but I would like it to go to the next page when it has finished playing.

any help?

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Sometime around 21/1/10 (at 07:31 -0500) john said:

animated giff intro page - without having to put a click to enter
button, is there a way to automatically go to the homepage when the
animation has finished?

No, not automatically. The animated GIF format is very simple - it
just cycles through a series of layered images. It is possible to
define custom timings for each frame, but you can’t assign ‘actions’
to frames.

Sorry!

Flash might be a better option as that can do precisely what you ask.
Or rethinking the entire concept…? :slight_smile:

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Hi John,
Generally doing this as a GIF animation isn’t going to help you. If
you could determine the load time for the GIF itself and then add on
the length of the animation you could do a timed redirect on the page
to take the user to the correct location when you thought the
animation had finished. This is going to hit and miss at best as
different connection speeds will determine how long the GIF will take
to load and play through to the end. Averaging this time out so that
everyone sees the animation is going to be tricky without some users
having to wait for the page to redirect.
The other methods I can think of are;

  1. Flash. Create the animation using Flash and redirect the user from
    inside the Flash file once the animation has finished.
  2. Create the animation using JavaScript and redirect the user, again,
    once the animation has completed. Have a Google for JavaScript
    animation frameworks.
  3. Create the animation as a QuickTime movie. QuickTime allows you to
    embed what are called HREF tracks that allow you to redirect the
    browser when the play head gets to a specific point in the animation.
  4. I don’t recommend tis unless you have an audience that are using
    Webkit browsers (Safari or Chrome for example) but you could create
    the whole animation using tools available to these browsers. For
    example; http://www.apple.com/safari/welcome/ (when viewed in Safari
    4). There are some great tools in there to allow developers to sync
    the music with the animation as well as animate the images.

My suggestion would be option 1 or take a stab at the timed redirect
and the animated GIF option.
Regards,
Tim.

On 21 Jan 2010, at 12:31, john wrote:

I’m working on a project that has an animated giff intro page -
without having to put a click to enter button, is there a way to
automatically go to the homepage when the animation has finished?.
At the moment I’ve got it on a timeline to redirect but I would like
it to go to the next page when it has finished playing.

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