Apparently so. I have had no troubles with it before the update...now I get beach ballin' whenever theres more than one or two animated GIFs on a web page. Everything else seems to be working fine. Any other users experiencing this as well?
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Safari 4.0.1 Can't Handle GIFs?
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I've always had trouble with GIF's on my Mac. Safari, Firefox.. any of em. It's the ONLY problem i have with my iMac. Weird. 
Are you serious?
Are you serious? You can't display GIF images in Safari? Is this a joke? Sorry, this shall absolutely not sound offending, but I don't trust my eyes reading this.
We have 2009, can fly to the moon for about 40 years and download HD movies in a few hours, but there really is a problem displaying one of the oldest graphic formats in the world?
I've just tried to display an animted gif in Safair 4.0.2 on Windows and everything worked fine (don't have a Mac at my hands now). But I also can't remember having any problems with GIFs the recent years, except in the very early Safari version where have been issues if the same animated gif was used several time on a page: only the first one was animted these times.
Are you serious? You can't display GIF images in Safari? Is this a joke? Sorry, this shall absolutely not sound offending, but I don't trust my eyes reading this.
We have 2009, can fly to the moon for about 40 years and download HD movies in a few hours, but there really is a problem displaying one of the oldest graphic formats in the world?
I've just tried to display an animted gif in Safair 4.0.2 on Windows and everything worked fine (don't have a Mac at my hands now). But I also can't remember having any problems with GIFs the recent years, except in the very early Safari version where have been issues if the same animated gif was used several time on a page: only the first one was animted these times.
Can your camera take daguerreotype photographs? Does your house connect to a DC power plant? Do you ride to work on horseback?
Just because it's old doesn't mean it's good, and just because it "can" be supported doesn't mean it "should."
I've also had problems with GIFs in Safari 4. It seems Safari can only handle one or two GIFs on a page but any more and it really struggles to load them.
Well it DOES display them lol. I'm just saying I go on these other forums and /b/ newfags (pardon) post witty "internets" memes which consist of many animated GIF images per page. And I'm pretty sure my 2.93GHz 4GB RAM is supposed to handle it, but the software just isn't there.
Also HD Youtube sucks on Mac as well, no matter if I have the 9600M on or not. But HD video files play more than perfectly on just the 9400M, it's just lacking compatibility.
I may be wrong but I have always understood .GIF to be a proprietary format that Apple did not buy into.
Gif info from Wiki:
Controversy over the licensing agreement between the patent holder, Unisys, and CompuServe in 1994 spurred the development of the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) standard; since then all the relevant patents have expired.
Gif info from Wiki:
Controversy over the licensing agreement between the patent holder, Unisys, and CompuServe in 1994 spurred the development of the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) standard; since then all the relevant patents have expired.