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GIFs are still here because people make art with it, in some form. This is how we got still GIFs around, not because we needed to transfer videos. The idea of r
by antirez 7y ago
GIFs are still here because people make art with it, in some form. This is how we got still GIFs around, not because we needed to transfer videos. The idea of replacing everything based on technical superiority is extremely shortsighted. We need more humanists in computing.
- tdb7893 7y agoYou can make the same art with other formats. I'm not sure exactly what your point is here.
- antirez 7y ago1. One of the reasons a kinda secondary feature of GIFs (animations) became so popular is because it's so easy to generate them. 2. A big feature is that they are not lossy compressed so you can do animations of all the kinds. 3. They allow to set very slow FPS settings in a trivial way. Animated GIFs are not really a video format, they are just a set of non-lossy compressed images shown at a timer interval. Such small details are hugely important when some media is used in a creative way.
- vortico 7y agoIf you have an application where you need lossless and optionally low FPS, then GIF is fine (and APNG and webp for smaller filesizes but less compatibility). But the average GIF in the wild these days is a reencoding from a video that doesn't match this description, which is what should be changed to h264, vp8, vp9, or AV1.
- silversconfused 7y agoMaybe the movement could and should clarify their goals for world domination do not include dancing baby gifs?
- erichocean 7y agoYou can write the same algorithm in some other language. I'm not sure what exactly your point is here. /sarc