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The Graphics Interchange Format is not intended as a platform for animation
- airstrike 7y agoYeah, that is one lost cause
- Paraesthetic 7y agoInteresting article, I think they may have missed the memo about people using technology how it works best for them
- aspaceman 7y agoSadly, there wasn't a better alternative. Especially on mobile. HTML5 requires a tap, a gif doesn't. I think that's what made all the difference in the world Have there been attempts at alternatives that address the actual use cases for GIF in the wild?
- journalctl 7y agoAnimated PNG (APNG) seems like a decent alternative: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
- aspaceman 7y agoBased on that article, once Edge moves to Chromium based all the major browsers (except IE) will have APNG support. For folks more in the know: are there any political issues that would prevent more widespread adoption? Or is it just that most folks are already on GIF and it's "good enough". I suppose GIF being in the common vernacular might make things tougher as well.
- aaronbwebber 7y agoIt's not intended to be pronounced with a hard G either, but that doesn't stop people.
- Mathnerd314 7y agoNeeds a [1990] tag
- dang 7y agoThis breaks the site guidelines, which ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: Cherry-picking one detail from an article is editorializing. If you want to say what you think is important in an article, please do so in a comment, where your view is on a level playing field with everyone else's. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20title%20level%20playing%20field https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... Another thing you could do is write your own article that goes into why this is interesting, and submit that instead. That might be the best option. You could always link to the original article from your post.
- chevas 7y agoYet it has proven functional for certain animations for years with entire websites devoted to the file format. At some point you let it be what it is.
- bch 7y ago“The street finds its own uses for things” -Burning Chrome
- i_am_proteus 7y agoScrewdrivers are not intended to be prybars. Jelly roll pans are not intended to bake cookies. The Fender Bassman is not intended to be a guitar amp. A TV tuner chip is not intended to be a general-purpose software-defined-radio receiver. &c....
- DoctorOetker 7y agoBut unlike prybars, cookie trays, guitar amps, SDR, ... there is no minimalist, bloatless, turing incomplete, popular, open standard for animations.
- DoctorOetker 7y agoI have often thought about how vector graphics should be extended to animations: instead of defining curves in 2 dimensions, define curved surfaces in 3, where the third is simply time. I wouldn't mind conditionals etc, as long as it is held turing incomplete.
- DaiPlusPlus 7y agoSVG supports animation. Flash supports animation. You can define basic shapes in CSS and use its own animation capabilities.
- DoctorOetker 7y agoI never new SVG supports animation! is it scripted and turing complete like Flash?
- DoctorOetker 7y agothe 3 methods of SVG animation from wikipedia are either through scripting, or limited transforms as far as I can tell. I meant defining the animation in as geometry in a higherdimensional space.
- univacky 7y agoIt also was intended to have its name pronounced like "JIF", but you know what happens to intentions.
- teilo 7y agoAnd yet it moves.