title: Countdown Timer Image GIF in Email
body: <p>I recently received an emailer from Onnit Labs that included a Countdown Module Timer inside the emailer using a gif image. The emailer can be viewed here: <a href="https://www.onnit.com/emails/lastchance-historic/" rel="noreferrer">https://www.onnit.com/emails/lastchance-historic/</a></p>
  
  <p>The Image can be seen here:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://www.onnit.com/emails/_modules/timer/?end=2014-11-27+00:00:00&amp;dark=1" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/e6zAd.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>I looked into it, and it seems you can keep sending new frames to an animated GIF using gifsockets, as a GIF doesn't specify how many frames it has when loaded in the browser. Here it is on github: <a href="http://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets" rel="noreferrer">http://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets</a></p>
  
  <p>I thought this was pretty interesting and a cool effect indeed. Does anyone have any other insights on how this could be accomplished? It seems as though the one they're using at Onnit seems to change the countdown according to date appended at the end of URL or image.</p>
  
  <p><code>onnit.com/emails/_modules/timer/?end=2012-12-27+00:00:00&amp;dark=1</code></p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to accomplish the same thing to send in an email, but I am a little stumped.</p>