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Subject:RE: Animation of GIFs From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 8 Nov 2002 13:53:55 -0500
Janet...
And if a gif is a composite of three pictures, does it say three thousand
words?
It may be communication, but it isn't technical communication. Have you EVER
seen an animated gif that communicated something technical?
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
212-414-6656
"Available for next gig Feb 01, 2003"
-----Original Message-----
From: Janet Murphy [mailto:janet -at- fuse -dot- net]
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 1:49 PM
To: John Posada
Cc: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Animation of GIFs
A picture says a thousand words....and while it's not specificall "writing",
it
*is* technical communication.
janet murphy
cincinnati, oh
John Posada wrote:
> Animating gifs is not technical writing...in fact. most of us would like
to
> see less than more if it. Therefore, if you search the web, which has
> thousands of web pages on this, you won't be subject to the ridicule that
> some of us might offer.
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