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we have better formats but gifs are still everywhere, maybe there should be a gif222 to fix this stuff and maybe improve compression a bit too
by gfody 5y ago
we have better formats but gifs are still everywhere, maybe there should be a gif222 to fix this stuff and maybe improve compression a bit too
- NoahKAndrews 5y agoThat's kind of the point. What makes you think that people still using suboptimal GIFs are going to want to go update those GIFs to comply with breaking changes in how the spec is interpreted?
- gfody 5y agopeople won't change but if the gif library were updated then maybe browsers could support a modern rev with unambiguously defined behavior and compression improvements, maintain compatibility for older gif87a and gif89a files, and then a path would exist for gif authoring tools to eventually output gif222 by default at some point in the future (instead of throwing our hands up and letting this crusty old tech define our internet forever)