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It's 2023, and we still only have 256-color gifs...
by tomp 10y ago
It's 2023, and we still only have 256-color gifs...
- amelius 10y ago"256 colors ought to be enough for anybody"
- kleptako 10y agoOn all 4chan boards, webms have pretty much completely replaced gifs.
- dr_zoidberg 10y agoInside a GIF file, a palette can be redefined anywhere, and in between chunks of image data. Using that trick, you can pull 24-bit colour GIFs. There are two problems about it: most GIF editors don't use this trick, and it makes the GIFs grow significantly (50 MB GIF anyone?). Raher than pushing an old technology, I'm surprised they didn't go for a better, modern alternative, like WebM.
- khedoros 10y agoWe have other formats like animated pngs (and most browsers support them), but they don't seem that popular.