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Why does iChat not have animated emoticons? Is there a hack?
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Why does iChat not have animated emoticons? Is there a hack? Has it something to do with XML implementation in OS X?
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Charla has had animating emoticons for ages and even filling the screen with the little buggers barely takes 60% of my FPiMac's CPU...
So, there's really no reason they can't add them. It's probably not considered an important feature, is all.
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Well, that and I'm sure it'd be annoying. 
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I think people use it for it's chat abilities and not for animations.
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It would eat a fair bit of CPU time and bandwidth (over time). Other than that it would be very easy to graft on. In fact iChatStreamingIcon does the same thing with the iSight.
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Originally posted by Tulkas:
It would eat a fair bit of CPU time and bandwidth (over time). Other than that it would be very easy to graft on. In fact iChatStreamingIcon does the same thing with the iSight.
How would it eat bandwidth? I believe AOL sets a limit of 40k (or is it 60k?) for a buddy icon. Even modem users can download a 40k file...
And iChatStreamingIcon works by actually changing your icon every two seconds. This is *not* what an animated icon would do. It would just be an animated gif file...
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Bandwidth? CPU? We are talking about GIF, not QuickTime movies!
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Originally posted by Appleman:
Bandwidth? CPU? We are talking about GIF, not QuickTime movies!
Safari chokes here on the MacNN forums when posting... those animated smilies are killer.
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?? Are we talking Buddy Icons or Emoticons here? I thought that they were client side and AIM, iChat, Adium whatever renders the : ) in to how would that take up bandwidth? Maybe I am missing something.
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Apple just didn't want animated icons. I'm sure its something that can be hacked. They're most likely using an NSImage, and they just didn't turn on the "animated" flag.
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Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
Safari chokes here on the MacNN forums when posting... those animated smilies are killer.
True (though not on my 2x2 G5  ), however I think its a Safari problem and not an OS problem, since Firebird/Firefox doesn't chew up CPU time animating a GIF.
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Is this eating CPU or bandwidth for you???
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