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lakenen / detectanimation.js
Created June 28, 2012 17:17
JavaScript animated GIF detection!
function isAnimatedGif(src, cb) {
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open('GET', src, true);
request.responseType = 'arraybuffer';
request.addEventListener('load', function () {
var arr = new Uint8Array(request.response),
i, len, length = arr.length, frames = 0;
// make sure it's a gif (GIF8)
if (arr[0] !== 0x47 || arr[1] !== 0x49 ||