cheeaun, 4 months ago

@box464 🤔 somehow the animated GIF is not animated

box464, 4 months ago

@cheeaun I saw that! Going to edit it and see if a different route works.

box464, 4 months ago

@cheeaun My original path was: giphy.com, right click image, copy, paste to Phanpy post. (did not work)

Updated path: giphy.com, right click image, save to local, attach to Phanpy post (works!)

I was being lazy and knew that might not work.

cheeaun, 4 months ago

@box464 hmm interesting. Were you on Chrome? I just found this 2014 bug report https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=356210.🤯

box464, 4 months ago

@cheeaun Firefox. I think this has more to do with GIPHY wanting to force app developers into using their API / component for selecting GIFs so they can use the tracking data from that. They make it difficult to right click and save an actual GIF image.

cheeaun, 4 months ago

@box464 hmm I just tried on Firefox and Safari, same thing. Also tried GIFs from Google images, open the gif file in its own tab separated from the web page, "Copy image", paste, still just a frame of the GIF 🤔

Seems like a very old browser(+mac?) bug 😵‍💫 (Firefox seems to have fixed it for Windows, but this https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664717#c57)

box464, 4 months ago

@cheeaun Yep! Confirmed on a windows box. Firefox copies as expected, Chrome on Windows does not. Safari on Mac does not. How in the world has that bug continued for so long?!