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GIFs Without the .gif: The Most Performant Image and Video Options
- notjustanymike 4y agoPeople at my job refer to any embedded, auto playing video as a gif. It's so hard to continue functioning as a civil adult.
- shpx 4y agoIf you can “film” videos without film, why not post a GIF without a .gif?
- kangalioo 4y agoFilm is disambiguated by verb vs noun context, gif isn't
- Waterluvian 4y agoI watched a film last week. I shared a gif last week.
- bheadmaster 4y agoI filmed my brother's wedding last week. I... giffed a funny cat last week?
- pornel 4y agoAspirin, sharpie, jet ski, post-it, trampoline, etc. used to refer to a specific brand. CompuServe GIF is joining the list.
- austhrow743 4y agoIs sharpie not still brand specific?
- Royi 4y agoAnother great option is Animated PNG [0]. It has better quality and better compression compared to GIF. It appears as a side note in the article but it should be considered for the use case. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
- rchaud 4y agoAPNG is a huge disappointment. Its compression is barely any better than GIF, less than 25% in most cases. Inline muted video on loop is easily the superior choice as file sizes are smaller and browser compatibility is better. The one area APNG would be useful compared to MP4 is where the image itself needs to have a transparent background. MP4 cannot be transparent, it will always be in a rectangular container and a solid background.
- pornel 4y agoAPNG is at best a mixed bag, far from being a significant improvement over GIF. GIF can have one palette per frame, which can be exploited to improve compression and quality (see https://gif.ski https://gif.ski). APNG has to either use a costly true-color mode, which makes it compress worse than GIF, or one palette per entire animation, which gives it worse quality than GIF. All the GIF-killer formats miss the point. They're trying to beat GIF on being primitive and inefficient, but GIF isn't successful because it's a dumb slow video codec, it's successful because it's old enough to be universally supported.
- amatecha 4y ago"most performant"... did they mean "best-performing"?
- brrrrrm 4y agoI’ve recently started hearing this form of pedantry, but I’m not sure I understand it. “Performant” seems to be defined by the New Oxford American dictionary as “performing well” and claims it is mostly used in computing contexts. What’s the issue with saying “most performant”?
- faller_slive 4y ago
- theandrewbailey 4y agoIt's vague. How does it "perform well"? Does it mean "faster"? "smaller"? Why not use a word that's not only more specific and well-known, but faster to read and pronounce?
- brrrrrm 4y agoI believe that’s a separate issue as “best-performing” isn’t any less vague.
- derbOac 4y agoFWIW, to me performant has connotations of conformant, so performant implies "performing to spec". I also think it implies in general doing what it's supposed to. Maybe that impression is incorrect but it is my impression.