Ok so I remembered that you can animate pngs

Anyways I found a nice app that lets you make them easily it's called APNG EDIT
you can get it here

If you look at my avatar you can see that it doesn't have hard edges ^^

PNG                GIF
Unfortunetely it seems that anyone not using the bellow "minimal" requirements won't be able to view/use these wonderful images...
Mozilla Firefox 3
Opera 9.5
KSquirrel 0.7.2
XnView 1.92

so the question is... what's taking everyone else so fudgeing long to implement this into their browser?!
this is a wonderful feature, as I can't use JavaScript in my icon...

well atleast they're pngs so if you can't see the animation it still looks good.

[Bellow images from animatedpng.com]

PNG                                                 GIF