animated .gif duration and timeout

[typewriter4]

HI, thanks for your help.

I'd like to include animated .gifs in documentation on our HTML user publication site. Is there any way to dictate the duration and timeout of the animation?

I can link to the image and it plays fine, but i'd like to specify a timeout so it is not so distracting. Ideally you could turn it on and off with a mouse click, but a simple timeout would also suffice.

thanks