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For you younger members of the audience, this page is a great demonstration of how animated GIFs were originally used on the web and why a lot of us were so sur
by AdamH12113 3y ago
For you younger members of the audience, this page is a great demonstration of how animated GIFs were originally used on the web and why a lot of us were so surprised when they made a big comeback in a totally different style in the 21st century.
- egeozcan 3y agoI'm also amused by the fact that the file format GIF became a name for a snippet of animation, and you usually get a webp when you search for a GIF (for good reasons too, but funny nevertheless).
- fritzo 3y agoI've heard the specific old format pronounced 'GIF', whereas the newer general use case for any image format is pronounced 'GIF'
- ant6n 3y agoEverybody knows its always been pronounced ‘gif’.
- account42 3y ago> and you usually get a webp when you search for a GIF (for good reasons too, but funny nevertheless). It's really unfortunate because animated webp is a shit format that should never have been created. There is no excuse for it lacking the same intra-frame compression present in the webm format it is based on. Much better would have been to let the <img> tag and css pictures use (silent) video files and then add the missing features (loop flag, alpha, lossless compresion) to webm.
- rchaud 3y agothis is exactly how GIFs should have remained. The new generation calls these "stickers" which are all over Tiktok and Snapchat, and they're all Canva-made identikit garbage. It's sad to think that GIFs that still remain are movie/TV scenes that are clipped to use as reactions to online comments.
- rkagerer 3y agoThanks for finally explaining stickers to me.
- dirtyhippiefree 3y ago> It's sad to think that GIFs that still remain Those under thirty should be aware that this occurred because the owner of the GIF spec (H&R Block) began a legal strategy that caused most of us to move to JPEG.