Show HN: Real time updating gif countdown with automatic time zone detection.

Re:Show HN: Real time updating gif countdown with automatic ... by sturmeh on Sunday May 26, 2013 @10:29AM (#5771155)

The only issue is that the gif is streaming, which means the page is never 'ready'.

Also I didn't look into it, but wouldn't bandwidth be an issue if people left these running in backgrounded tabs?

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Re:Show HN: Real time updating gif countdown with automatic ... by leviathan on Sunday May 26, 2013 @11:56AM (#5771402)

That will also never work in mobile safari since it doesn't play gifs until they finish downloading.

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Re:Show HN: Real time updating gif countdown with automatic ... by pronoiac on Sunday May 26, 2013 @04:41PM (#5772355)

The maker replied to me in a comment below - it won't work in Mobile Safari, but now it only sends the first frame, so the page will finish loading and it won't eat up bandwidth.

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Re:Show HN: Real time updating gif countdown with automatic ... by mape on Sunday May 26, 2013 @12:49PM (#5771573)

The gif is set to only update for 2 minutes. That ends up being around 470KB.

If the size or "page never loading" is an issue you have the option to turn of animations when creating the countdown.

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Re:Show HN: Real time updating gif countdown with automatic ... by mtarnovan on Sunday May 26, 2013 @11:43AM (#5771364)

It's completely unusable given the size. In 30 seconds it streamed 120kb and it probably never stops streaming (until the countdown ends)

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Re:Show HN: Real time updating gif countdown with automatic ... by jaseemabid on Sunday May 26, 2013 @10:40AM (#5771181)

Yup! bandwidth is a major issue.

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