Optimized / Resized GIFs lose all animation, become still frames

We have two definitions of “large” being used, one with regard to file size and one with regard to dimensions, so clarity is key.

  1. I competely agree, so long as we’re talking solely about large dimensions. Resizing and compressing uploaded gifs seems reasonable if it’s done to save bandwidth and storage space.
  2. I thought this was already done automatically? I’ve always seen dimensions added to my image markup. The problem is that they’re being (as you put it) munged server-side based on those dimensions. (Or maybe not based on those dimensions… I haven’t looked at the code for that.)
  3. Agreed, on all counts.