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There's actually a tendency for "GIF" to become a generic term for any small animated pictures, rather than what it used to mean. I saw it many times that "GIF
by drdaeman 10y ago
There's actually a tendency for "GIF" to become a generic term for any small animated pictures, rather than what it used to mean.
I saw it many times that "GIFs" were used to denote what actually were small MPEG4 short clips. Made me cringe internally.
- jeroenhd 10y agoImgur converts most moving images into mp4 and webm, serving the optimal file to the browser the visitor is using. I think this is part of the reason why people use the word "GIF" for any moving media these days as imgur is a very popular medium.
- DaiPlusPlus 10y agoGIF also has the connotation of the animation or video being short (under 30 seconds), often subtler animation, and without audio - whereas "video" implies more a traditional multimedia presentation.
- tinus_hn 10y agoWhatsApp also supports 'gifs' that I think are just short videos with no support for sound that play inline. Kind of what Vine tried to do.
- btym 10y agoTwitter does the same thing.