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For example: Interlaced GIF is a GIF image that seems to arrive on your display like an image coming through a slowly opening Venetian blind. A fuzzy outline of an image is gradually replaced by seven successive waves of bit streams that fill in the missing lines until the image arrives at its full resolution.
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; / ɡ ɪ f / GHIF or / dʒ ɪ f / JIF, see § Pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on June 15, 1987.
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Using thumbnails with a large size in bytes instead of a smaller size in bytes (e.g., a high-fidelity 50 kB PNG instead of an uglier 20 kB JPEG) can definitely slow down the loading of pages; but whether that's acceptable is an editorial choice, not something the developers or sysadmins will either prevent or encourage.
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For display on computers, technology such as the animated GIF and Flash animation were developed. In addition to short films, feature films, television series, animated GIFs, and other media dedicated to the display of moving images, animation is also prevalent in video games, motion graphics, user interfaces, and visual effects. [1]
Tested it in Opera 9.02, IE7 beta 3, and Firefox 1.5.0.6, and in all browsers there's a delay visible: it takes 19 seconds to fully load the image! Like Plugwash said, when loading from hard disk it's just as slow. -- Sander 16:20, 9 September 2006 (UTC) Also see the delay in Seamonkey 1.0.4 . It really is rendering it frame by frame.