Please reply to the list :) On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:37:47 +0100, Gavin Wraith wrote:
> > > I recently had occasion to make a scrolling banner for somebody's > > > website. I used TextEffX 1.52 to create a sprite (408x56 pixels > > > 16M colours, no mask, no palette) then SAMP 1.21 to produce more > > > sprites of the same size for the animation, then Intergif 6.18 to > > > create the animated gif. The result looked just like the original > > > sprite when viewed with FireFox 7 on a Windows XP machine, but > > > rather different when viewed with NetSurf r12786 on an Iyonix > > > (RO 5.16). Does this mean a bug in Libnsgif? > > > > A link to the file in question would be incredibly useful if you would > > like this checked/fixed! > > Yes of course. It is the gif banner under the top header strip at > http://www.bloomsteins.co.uk/ that says "Buyers of scrap gold and silver" > and "Sellers of investment gold". Looking at it in 1280x1024x16M with > NetSurf r12786 what I see are: > > # Different thickness of the two 'l's in "Sellers" > # Last column of pixels missing in the 'S' of "Sellers" > # Different thickness of the 'i' and the 'l' in "silver" > # Missing first column of pixels of 'g' in "scrap gold" > > In fact most of the wonky effects seem to be down to missing columns > of pixels. It looks as it should with FireFox 7. Another error is a > stray white column of pixels, and an isolated white pixel showing up > during the transition between the messages. I can see a stray dot on the left and column of pixels on the far right. The letter widths look OK to me. I tried opening it in another GIF viewer and it looks fine (but curiously missing a couple of frames there), so this does indeed appear to be a bug in libnsgif or NetSurf. Please can you raise it as a proper bug report so it doesn't get lost. Thanks Chris
