Can someone explain to me why the image on the Google home page with a
description of "New Year's Day 2022" shows 2021 ? Is there some
explanation I'm missing ?

On 01/01/2022 11:03, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
> Can someone explain to me why the image on the Google home page with a
> description of "New Year's Day 2022" shows 2021 ? Is there some
> explanation I'm missing ?
>

You haven't changed to duck duck go?

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Spiros Bousbouras wrote:

> Can someone explain to me why the image on the Google home page with a
> description of "New Year's Day 2022" shows 2021 ? Is there some
> explanation I'm missing ?

I see a cracker with "2021" written on it, the animation then bursts open to
reveal a big "2022" maybe you have javascript disabled?

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 11:31:43 +0000
Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
> Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
>
> > Can someone explain to me why the image on the Google home page with a
> > description of "New Year's Day 2022" shows 2021 ? Is there some
> > explanation I'm missing ?
>
> I see a cracker with "2021" written on it, the animation then bursts open to
> reveal a big "2022" maybe you have javascript disabled?

Ah yes , I get it now. It's not a javascript issue but I was accessing Google
with a text browser which opens a separate application for displaying images
and that does not show the animation in GIFs .I should have figured it out
myself.

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 11:47:48 -0000 (UTC)
Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 11:31:43 +0000
> Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
> > I see a cracker with "2021" written on it, the animation then bursts open to
> > reveal a big "2022" maybe you have javascript disabled?
>
> Ah yes , I get it now. It's not a javascript issue but I was accessing Google
> with a text browser which opens a separate application for displaying images
> and that does not show the animation in GIFs .I should have figured it out
> myself.

And in order for the thread not to be a total waste of time here's how you
can see a GIF animation with GIMP : you open the menu "Filters" , choose
"Animation" and then "Playback". You can even step frame by frame.

Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 11:47:48 -0000 (UTC)
> Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 11:31:43 +0000
>> Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
>> > I see a cracker with "2021" written on it, the animation then bursts open to
>> > reveal a big "2022" maybe you have javascript disabled?
>>
>> Ah yes , I get it now. It's not a javascript issue but I was accessing Google
>> with a text browser which opens a separate application for displaying images
>> and that does not show the animation in GIFs .I should have figured it out
>> myself.
>
> And in order for the thread not to be a total waste of time here's how you
> can see a GIF animation with GIMP : you open the menu "Filters" , choose
> "Animation" and then "Playback". You can even step frame by frame.

The "animate" program which is part of ImageMagick might be more
easily launched from a text web browser. I use it sometimes when
browsing in Dillo, which also just shows still frames from a GIF
animation. Though the clunky process of manually saving to file
and then opening separately with "animate" isn't usually worth the
reward.

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On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 00:18:57 -0000 (UTC)
not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:
> Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 11:47:48 -0000 (UTC)
> > Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 11:31:43 +0000
> >> Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
> >> > I see a cracker with "2021" written on it, the animation then bursts open to
> >> > reveal a big "2022" maybe you have javascript disabled?
> >>
> >> Ah yes , I get it now. It's not a javascript issue but I was accessing Google
> >> with a text browser which opens a separate application for displaying images
> >> and that does not show the animation in GIFs .I should have figured it out
> >> myself.
> >
> > And in order for the thread not to be a total waste of time here's how you
> > can see a GIF animation with GIMP : you open the menu "Filters" , choose
> > "Animation" and then "Playback". You can even step frame by frame.
>
> The "animate" program which is part of ImageMagick might be more
> easily launched from a text web browser. I use it sometimes when

Ah yes , I knew that there was some ImageMagick programme which would do the
job but I didn't know which and I couldn't be bothered to search through the
plethora of programmes in the suite to locate the correct one. I did try
display <image> and saw the original image but then got a weird result
which I can't even describe.

> browsing in Dillo, which also just shows still frames from a GIF
> animation. Though the clunky process of manually saving to file
> and then opening separately with "animate" isn't usually worth the
> reward.

Doesn't dillo offer a way to automate this ? I use w3m which supports a
~/.w3m/mailcap file although the location is configurable. This has for
example a line

image/gif; feh '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" ; description=GIF Image; nametemplate=%s.gif

If I change in the above feh to animate , I expect it will work. So
by pressing the appropriate key w3m saves the image in a temporary file
and opens it with the application you specify.

I do note that it's annoying that w3m does not use by default ~/.mailcap
and it took me a while until I figured out how to get w3m to use the
mailcap file that I wanted. But it does support them.

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In comp.misc, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
> Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
>> And in order for the thread not to be a total waste of time here's how you
>> can see a GIF animation with GIMP : you open the menu "Filters" , choose
>> "Animation" and then "Playback". You can even step frame by frame.
> The "animate" program which is part of ImageMagick might be more
> easily launched from a text web browser. I use it sometimes when
> browsing in Dillo, which also just shows still frames from a GIF
> animation. Though the clunky process of manually saving to file
> and then opening separately with "animate" isn't usually worth the
> reward.

Huh. gifview from the gifsicle package is my usualy go-to. Can't you
just make animate or gifview the default tool for the image/gif
mime-type?

(It has been years since I've tried to view an image from a text mode
browser, and those do tend to support external tools for various
non-HTML content types. Dillo isn't text mode, but I last
used it in pre 1.0, so I don't know what it does these days. My
recollection is that it focused on "correctness", so I'd suspect it's an
option.)

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Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
> In comp.misc, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
>> Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> And in order for the thread not to be a total waste of time here's how you
>>> can see a GIF animation with GIMP : you open the menu "Filters" , choose
>>> "Animation" and then "Playback". You can even step frame by frame.
>> The "animate" program which is part of ImageMagick might be more
>> easily launched from a text web browser. I use it sometimes when
>> browsing in Dillo, which also just shows still frames from a GIF
>> animation. Though the clunky process of manually saving to file
>> and then opening separately with "animate" isn't usually worth the
>> reward.
>
> Huh. gifview from the gifsicle package is my usualy go-to. Can't you
> just make animate or gifview the default tool for the image/gif
> mime-type?

So far as I can tell from the docs and example configuration file,
there's no support for launching applications to open downloaded
files, and there's no option in the "image" drop-down menu which
suggests it would try to open that image in an external viewer.
There is a plug-ins system, which launches an external program that
is expected to spit out a HTML document, but it wouldn't be suited
to conveniently opening downloaded files.

Such a feature would be handy for viewing PDFs, though in the case
of GIF animations I probably only want to watch one once a year at
most. It's annoying that it still downloads whole multi-megabyte
GIF "videos" just to show a still frame though, I'd call the lack
of animation support a feature if it also avoided downloading extra
data like that.

> (It has been years since I've tried to view an image from a text mode
> browser, and those do tend to support external tools for various
> non-HTML content types.

Yes, I've set that up before in eLinks and Lynx (if not others as
well). I remember thinking that all the MIME stuff adds more
confusion than it's worth compared to just setting file extension
associations like in the GUI file managers I use, but I'm sure that
some people out there love it.

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