Hello community,
was there a time when mobile Safari could actually play back animated gifs properly?
Gif animations perform slow like a slide show or worse.
My iOS history: 5.1.1 to 6.0.1
iPad (3rd gen) Wi-Fi, iOS 6.0.1
same problem here too.
Yes, right now. I'm having no problems with animated GIFs on iOS 6.0.1.
What exactly is going on on your iPad when you have this problem? Do you have an example URL?
Note that animated GIF display will be slow if Safari is still doing some task, for example, still loading other parts of a Web page.
it becomes extremely slow. for example, http://corearoadbike.com/
it has animated gifs as as banners all over and is very slow on ipad 3.
Even after some time for loading went by, gifs are still not played back with normal speed.
The more gifs are visible at once the slower they all play. If I zoom in on a gif it runs faster but still not "desktop speed". Where my desktop plays immediately the iPad loads frame by frame first and so it looks like the gif is accelerating in the beginning but it never reaches normal speed. The scroll response gets choppy and depending on gif fill rate of the screen, parts of the webpage will render again.
I encounter these problems everywhere where there are gifs e.g. theverge.com comment sections or on GIF tumblrs.
Maybe it's the scaling algorithm of safari which demands too much video memory due to the "retina" display? I don't know.
regards
Mobile Safari and .gifs ?
