The Long, Remarkable History of the GIF

Re:The Long, Remarkable History of the GIF by danso on Sunday August 21, 2016 @06:00PM (#12332911)

That was a nice lengthy read. While the GIF format itself is a bit outdated, I hope the artform of excerpting video/animation into a silent, short-loop never goes out of style.

Is it impossible to turn back GIF adoption? What if someone makes the equivalent of Steve Jobs's declaration against Flash? To me, Flash was far more vital to the very operation of web services. Then again, processing GIFs doesn't require near the same complexity or security risks as Flash did.

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Re:The Long, Remarkable History of the GIF by wodenokoto on Sunday August 21, 2016 @06:48PM (#12333081)

I think the gifv container format will mostly kill animated gifs in a few years. It promises the silent, looped animations, maintains name recognition, but has good compression.

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Re:The Long, Remarkable History of the GIF by lfender6445 on Sunday August 21, 2016 @09:38PM (#12333605)

the conversation with the imgur ceo was my favorite part of this piece. for those interested:

> GIFV is not actually a distinct file format, but it is an MP4 or WebM video that is presented via a HTML 5 video element or an Adobe Flash element with options set so as to make it work similarly to an animated GIF (i.e. endless loop with no video controls visible

> http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/GIFV

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