Which browsers do not support animated gifs?

Question

It's seems like all major browsers (ie, firefox, safari, chrome) support animated gifs. Though I've been reading that IE might not be faithful to high frame rates. Who doesn't support animated GIFs? Iphone safari seems to just fine. What about other mobile browsers?

Solution

Lynx, for example.

Or any other non-graphical browser will likely also have problems.

Source: see this browser support matrix for GIF (and other image formats).

Comments

[Alec Jacobson]

True, but sort of a non-issue, I think.

[Rich]

@mangle: I'm assuming that you ask because you would want to make some sort of information accessible via an animated GIF. I'm also assuming that animation is a crucial part of what you want to convey. If you cannot rely on your users using a particular browser (e.g. IE in a corporate environment) then you should not rely on the browser being able to display the animation or images at all. The usual rules of accessibility apply.