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This does seem to be a good opportunity to retire the obsolete and wasteful .gif format ? (Or maybe at least limit it to maximum pixel area ?) But you just mea
by BlueTemplar 3y ago
This does seem to be a good opportunity to retire the obsolete and wasteful .gif format ? (Or maybe at least limit it to maximum pixel area ?)
But you just meant looping animations, right ?
- spintin 3y ago.gif is better than video if you have a small area that changes on the picture frame by frame. .gif can handle transparency. .gif will never be obsolete. Also dithering is an aesthetic!
- Retr0id 3y agoGIFs can be highly optimised for tiny simple animations, but 99.9% of the GIFs that people actually want to send are not in that category. webm (for example) can handle transparency too, has cross-platform support, and better compression ratios than GIF for anything remotely video-like.
- rchaud 3y agoGIF is only wasteful if it's used as a substitute for video.
- edflsafoiewq 3y agoWhich it largely is.