Mr Chris wrote:
kalmar wrote:
"caused some viewers to stare blankly at the screen".
Cough. Hmm, not clever though.
OTOH I'm a bit surprised that people who can be killed by animated gifs browse with images switched on in the first place: if I'm googling for something at work and visiting unknown websites then the first thing I do is switch images off to avoid any nasty surprises.
And that would only cover a range of outcomes from embarrassment through to disciplinary warning, rather than death.
Guess at the percentage of the population that knows they can do this.
General population, sure. People whos lives depend on not seeing rapid flickering things might want to look into it though.
It's (bad anallergy time) "like" if you're allergic to nuts, you know you're allergic to nuts, yet when someone tells you of this fantastic new chocolate bar, you rush out to buy one and open it immediately without checking if, you know, it has nuts in it.
edit: actually, what's the one single pertinent message a forum for
epilepsy sufferers who are also
internet users should be emphasising to its members, rather than potentially enabling that exact problem?