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Given the "announcement" GIF image BOB_89A.GIF was itself a slide show with about 10 seconds between frames, clearly GCE was done with at least slide shows in m
by banana_giraffe 4y ago
Given the "announcement" GIF image BOB_89A.GIF was itself a slide show with about 10 seconds between frames, clearly GCE was done with at least slide shows in mind.
Incidentally, that same GIF uses the text extension, something basically no modern thing that can show GIFs supports anymore.
- Sakos 4y agoIt's such a weird use case. Why would anybody want a 30 second to 10 minute per image slideshow where you can't control the images?
- banana_giraffe 4y agoWell, I think a poor-man screen saver was a common enough use case for that. That said, you can (or, rather, could) control the images. There's a flag in GIF89a that allows the viewer to skip ahead to the next frame on user input. No modern GIF viewer supports this anymore either. BOB_89A.GIF used this feature to let you skip ahead if you didn't want to just passively watch the slide show.