Maintaining websites in Sitecore helps you discover interesting issues. In this blog, we discuss one such issue :) The Problem We all know that Sitecore has the ability to resize images based on the query parameters that are supplied in a media item's URL. You must have already figured out that animated GIF files become not animated after resizing in Sitecore (it is in this blog's title itself). Wondering why it happens? According to Sitecore in KB1001735 - There is no built-in .NET functionality to resize a GIF file and keep its properties (for example, the delay between frames). In this case, only the first frame of the file is displayed. As a result, the animated GIF file might become not animated after resizing it using Sitecore. What this means is if you have a GIF like this - and if you want to resize it in Sitecore, it will appear like this - Sitecore has suggested a fix for it in the KB article which skips resizing of GIF files to prevent GIF files from becomin
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