banana won´t dance?

GomJabbar · **Joined:** Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:57 am **Posts:** 9622

They both dance for me Phil. Using Opera 9.63 on XP SP3. Not sure which technology is in effect here, but I am using Java 6, Update 11. I don't think it's relevant, but I have Adobe Flash Player 10.0.12.36 and Shockwave Player 11.0.3r470 installed.

bill bolton · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:21 am

pkiff wrote:

Can anyone else confirm that these two URLs produce different behaviours? Or is that just MY quirk?

The look exactly the same to me, dancing and all (using IE7 v7.0.5730.13 on an XP platform from the office).

Cheers,

Bill B.

basketb · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:31 am

pkiff wrote:

Is it possible that this is some kind of cache quirk related to virtual directories/redirects being used with the new forum url?

In Opera 9.63, I get different dancing behaviours depending on which url is used as the source -- though I am pretty sure that these two urls actually lead to the same file...

No dancing:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/images/smili ... banana.gif

Dancing fine:
http://thinkpads.com/forum/images/smili ... banana.gif

Can anyone else confirm that these two URLs produce different behaviours? Or is that just MY quirk?

Phil.

Phil, when I open the links for the bananas you provided, both actually dance for me. However, in this thread here, the non-dancing banana is from http://www.thinkpads.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_dancing%20banana.gif

dances:

dances:

doesn't dance:

<- so I hit the ESC key and all three stopped dancing. Then, when I reload the page, all three are dancing.

GomJabbar · **Joined:** Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:57 am **Posts:** 9622

basketb wrote:

dances:

doesn't dance:

They all dance for me.

basketb · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:37 am

Yes, I've edited my post above. Reloading the page fixes the problem for me. So it indeed seems to be a caching problem, a weird one though.

bill bolton · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:50 am

basketb wrote:

so I hit the ESC key and all three stopped dancing.

Hmmmm... same here. Quite wierd!

Cheers,

Bill B.

Marin85 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:55 am

Interesting, pressing the ESC key stop them from dancing in my case too...

GomJabbar · **Joined:** Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:57 am **Posts:** 9622

At present, I am in W7B using Opera 10 Alpha. The ESC key has no effect. They keep dancing. :banana:

carbon_unit · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:09 am

I am using Firefox 3.0.5 in Ubuntu linux and the esc key does make them stop dancing. Strange.

beGi · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:04 am

basketb wrote:

Reloading the page fixes the problem for me.

Yes, but only if you make them stop via Esc key...

But if it stops on its own only reload+shift key will make it go again...or browser restart...

Marin85 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:58 am

basketb wrote:

Phil, when I open the links for the bananas you provided, both actually dance for me. However, in this thread here, the non-dancing banana is from http://www.thinkpads.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_dancing%20banana.gif

dances:

dances:

doesn't dance:

<- so I hit the ESC key and all three stopped dancing. Then, when I reload the page, all three are dancing.

The middle one doesn´t dance for me, the others two on the contrary dance

nikki605 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:05 pm

All three dance for me. Hitting ESC makes them all stop dancing. Refreshing the browser (IE7) starts all 3 dancing again.

I can't believe dancing bananas has generated this many posts. :lol:

carbon_unit · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:59 pm

Firefox3.0.5 in Vista and none of them dance period.

Edit: 10 hours later they are working fine. Vista sure is consistent :roll:

pkiff · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:35 pm

pkiff wrote:

In Opera 9.63, I get different dancing behaviours depending on which url is used as the source -- though I am pretty sure that these two urls actually lead to the same file...
No dancing:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/images/smili ... banana.gif
Dancing fine:
images/smilies/icon_dancing%20banana.gif

Doh! I just realized that the reason they were dancing in one but not in the other in my specific case is that I had intentionally disabled animated gifs in my browser for one of those domains, but not for the other (using Opera's right-click -> Edit Site Preferences technique described earlier) ...My bad. Sorry for further confusing an already bizarre and inexplicable issue. They all dance fine for me now that animation is enabled in both domains.

Phil.

Marin85 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:10 pm

nikki605 wrote:

I can't believe dancing bananas has generated this many posts. :lol:

Since this bug (or whatever it is) became so popular thanks to ME (yes, me, Me, ME, mE, I, I, ME, I,... :help:

) I have just one small (!) request - if the banana "story" should ever get to the annals of history, to be called after me e.g. Marin´s pHpBB 3 conjecture

Yet, any more pompous names are certainly welcome!

Thanks in advance!

Marin :mrgreen:

basketb · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:34 pm

basketb wrote:

Reloading the page fixes the problem for me.

beGi wrote:

Yes, but only if you make them stop via Esc key...

But if it stops on its own only reload+shift key will make it go again...or browser restart...

Don't know what browser you are using but for me in FF3, just reloading (F5) the page does the trick, no matter how they were stopped. Shift+F5 doesn't do anything.

Marin85 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 3:30 am

basketb wrote:

dances:

doesn't dance:

<- so I hit the ESC key and all three stopped dancing. Then, when I reload the page, all three are dancing.

How did you manage to asynchronize them?

Maybe it´s possible to add a third phase :idea:

basketb · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:00 pm

They aren't really synchronized for me. It seems random. Right now the first and third are in sync whereas yesterday it was some other combination.

nikki605 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:08 pm

WOW! I got my first feather AND my "Marin Bananas" all dance (granted, sometimes in sync, sometimes not in sync). Its a great day :beer:

Marin85 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:58 pm

basketb wrote:

They aren't really synchronized for me. It seems random. Right now the first and third are in sync whereas yesterday it was some other combination.

Yup, I was talking about asynchronizing them, it looks much cooler than if they were in sync

@nikki605: Congratulations for your feather! :beer:

Shall many more come!

basketb · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:16 pm

basketb wrote:

They aren't really synchronized for me. It seems random. Right now the first and third are in sync whereas yesterday it was some other combination.

Marin85 wrote:

Yup, I was talking about asynchronizing them, it looks much cooler than if they were in sync

...

Oh well, I really need to learn to read, don't I :wink:

?

rkawakami · **Posted:** Sat Jan 24, 2009 4:57 pm

And still another strange behavior...

Using FF3, I am able to make all of the animated .GIF files stop by simply pressing the ESC key as pkiff mentioned way back upthread. I can also make them individually start running again by right-clicking on the stopped .GIF animation and clicking "View image". That loads the smiley by itself into a new browser page and then I can back up one page to see the entire thread again.

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