Why did you disable animated gifs?

[hisson]

I would have never upgraded to outlook 2007 if I had known you disabled
animated gifs. If it's for security reasons, I am willing to risk it. It
should be up to the user to decide. Just put in an option the enable or
disable animated gifs.

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[Shawn76 via OfficeKB.com]

Try this,

open the email, then under the Other actions, click view in Browser. This
will open the email in your
browser and the gif should animate.

 

[N. Miller]

I would have never upgraded to outlook 2007 if I had known you disabled
animated gifs. If it's for security reasons, I am willing to risk it. It
should be up to the user to decide. Just put in an option the enable or
disable animated gifs.

I disable them because I don't like them. If you want them back, tough
beans. I will not re-enable them.

 

[VanguardLH]

I would have never upgraded to outlook 2007 if I had known you disabled
animated gifs. If it's for security reasons, I am willing to risk it. It
should be up to the user to decide. Just put in an option the enable or
disable animated gifs.

Upgraded from WHAT prior version of Outlook? What prior version of Outlook
did you use before that allowed the .gif to script through its series of
frames to show you the animation?

So what's so hard about opening the .gif attachment and then viewing it?
Remember that the *primary* customer of Microsoft for its Office suites are
corporations, not consumers. Corporations were not clamoring for their
employees to waste time to watch cutsy or pornographic animated images while
at work. Stop confusing an e-mail client with a web browser. Just because
the e-mail client displays HTML-formatted messages does NOT mean that the
e-mail client is the equivalent to a web browser. There is *lots* of HTML
content that your e-mail will not render that the sender chose to put in
their HTML-formatted messages.

So have you yet tried using the Internet view to display an e-mail that
contains a .gif image? Or read:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102014391033.aspx

Oh, I thought you wanted help on how to run the .gif through its frames to
play its mini-movie. Guess not. A suggestion is NOT a question.

 

[hisson]

I don't use pornographic gifs. We use gifs to dress up announcements and
maybe brighten someones day. It's kinda useless if you have to open the gif
in another window. My point is that it should be up to the user if they want
to disable animated gifs. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean
everyone has to have it your way.

 

[VanguardLH]

It's kinda useless if you have to open the gif
in another window. My point is that it should be up to the user if they want
to disable animated gifs. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean
everyone has to have it your way.

It's up to the user as to what e-mail client they use, not you. You can
never guarantee that any HTML content you compose will render the same in
the recipient's e-mail client as it does in your choice for an e-mail
client. In Outlook 2003/2007, it *is* up the user if they want to view
animated GIFs: just select to view the e-mail content under the Internet
security zone (i.e., use the Internet view) rather than under the default
Restricted Sites security zone. They do have a choice: whether they are
going to bother watching nuisancesome and/or intrusive animations or not.
The default is "not" but they can chose otherwise. That's how it works in
Outlook. In other e-mail clients, the recipient may not be able to view
animations at all or they might. You don't get to specify what e-mail
client the recipient uses.

Also, stop trying to use an e-mail client as a web page. Put a link to your
web site and have the recipient click on it (*if* they so choose) to go see
your fancy smancy web site with all those images, animations, graphics, and
other fluff. If you want to present the full range of content available in
a web page, have recipients go to a web page. It is far more likely that
how you compose your web page (provided you include code to accomodate the
behaviors of the 5 major web browsers) is how your recipients will see it.

 

[N. Miller]

I don't use pornographic gifs. We use gifs to dress up announcements and
maybe brighten someones day. It's kinda useless if you have to open the gif
in another window. My point is that it should be up to the user if they want
to disable animated gifs. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean
everyone has to have it your way.

It is up to the recipient, not the sender, how email will be viewed. Sorry,
that's just the way things are. You don't get to tell me how I view your
email. I choose for myself.