"dowelld" <dowelld@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AC80B55E-896F-432B-84AC-98FEC87BAF11@microsoft.com...
>I help run a phpBB2 board, and I recently had one of the admins tell me that
> they had a problem with the smileys. I've now spent about three days playing
> with this 'problem' and I think it's an IE problem. I can reproduce the
> problem on two different XP systems and one Vista system.
>
> They have loaded lots of different gif images onto the phpBB board, when
> they open the smiley window the entire display gets screwed and starts
> jumping about, this affects the entire screen, so the start menu disappears
> and the system tray.
>
> This only happens in IE, all other browsers work with the same page without
> any problem.
>
> I have scanned all of the gif files and checked them all for corruption, and
> they all pass as OK, and are all good gif images. I have saved the page as a
> static page and loaded that, and edited out entries for images in an effort
> to identify which files are causing this problem, and although reducing the
> number of gif images on the page stabilises the problem somewhat, the problem
> still occurs randomly.
>
> I've changed the multimedia options one at a time on the advanced tab, and
> turning off the play animations stops the problem, which seems to indicate
> that this problem is about the way in which gif animations are handled by IE.
>
> Someone tell me if I've missed something please, and if not how I get
> someone from MS to look at this problem.


Try using the IE Developer Toolbar? E.g. disable All CSS or use its
View, Image Report command

If you need more help please provide a sample link.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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