Originally posted by Ponderable You have to create an animated gif (you need a graphic programm that can combine gifs to an animated one) and load it up.
Not necessarily true...
You can also search Google for free animated gifs.
Originally posted by Ponderable Since we are in the help, you can switch of animated avatars by hitting "esc" just for once or by setting the browser settings
Love to know the answer to that..actually you're right, just checked by hitting 'esc'...that's with chrome mind you.
ESCAPE stops them in MSIE (v6sp2 ), at least until the page changes. Firefox it works with too 🙂