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From the article: “We believe GIFs are emerging as a format that consumers love and will be really important to advertisers as well,” said Barry Schuler, a part
by kelvin0 10y ago
From the article:
“We believe GIFs are emerging as a format that consumers love and will be really important to advertisers as well,” said Barry Schuler, a partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
OK, for me GIFs are from a bygone era of the web, for example:
http://www.11points.com/Web-Tech/11_Best_Old_School_Animated_GIFs http://www.11points.com/Web-Tech/11_Best_Old_School_Animated...
This is similar to bell bottom jeans coming into fashion again, and then having a retail store advertise them as an 'Emerging fashion trend' (more like recycling fashion trend)
- angus-prune 10y agoI entirely get what you're saying, but GIF doesn't mean GIF anymore. Many sites and applications are silently presenting MP4 or webm instead of actual gifs, often with the file format gifv. "gif" has stopped meaning a .gif and now just means a short, looping, animated video. File it alongside "disk" (solid state disk, save to disk etc), film (to mean movie) and various other weird language evolutions. These things used to grate on me, but then I chose to embrace the cultural history embedded in our language. I look forward to the year 2060 Buzfeed - "Top 37 words that used to mean something else", "You'll never guess why we call videos 'gifs'" etc etc ;)
- dredmorbius 10y agoDIVX.
- cyborgx7 10y agogifv isn't a file format, just an extension for an html document
- angus-prune 10y agoI meant file extension. My bad.