title: jQuery GIF Animations
body: <p>I'm looking to use jQuery to remove the need of using a GIF's to create a fairly simple animation.</p>
  
  <p>What I want is an image to have four stages.
   1) Nothing showing
   2) The first part of the image
   3) Second part of the image
   4) Third part of the image
   - Start over</p>
  
  <p>I was thinking I'd need to create the image stages then use a 'replace the current image with the next' technique with jQuery to create the animation. That could be pretty easy with callbacks.</p>
  
  <p>The next part is to have this animation appear in several places after the previous animation had completed loading. Once again, could be easy with callbacks.</p>
  
  <p>I was after some thoughts on this. Is it stupid not to just use GIF's? Or could this be done with jQuery?</p>