@linebyline@bytetower.social @listeninggarden@mastodon.art Hooboy, this reminds me… weren’t those animations (at least the ones for Internet Explorer) not simple loops but had a (number of) static poster frame(s) at the start and *then* the actual loop started? Took me ages to figure that one out when I had to make a „throbber“ for a custom ie build for a client sometime around… 1996? Ah, just found the files (minus the poster frame(s)).