Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG

Re:Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG by drdaeman on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @06:42PM (#13872165)

There's actually a tendency for "GIF" to become a generic term for any small animated pictures, rather than what it used to mean.

I saw it many times that "GIFs" were used to denote what actually were small MPEG4 short clips. Made me cringe internally.

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Re:Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG by jeroenhd on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @06:45PM (#13872194)

Imgur converts most moving images into mp4 and webm, serving the optimal file to the browser the visitor is using. I think this is part of the reason why people use the word "GIF" for any moving media these days as imgur is a very popular medium.

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Re:Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG by DaiPlusPlus on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @06:52PM (#13872242)

GIF also has the connotation of the animation or video being short (under 30 seconds), often subtler animation, and without audio - whereas "video" implies more a traditional multimedia presentation.

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Re:Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG by tinus_hn on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @07:53PM (#13872662)

WhatsApp also supports 'gifs' that I think are just short videos with no support for sound that play inline. Kind of what Vine tried to do.

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Re:Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG by btym on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @07:55PM (#13872671)

Twitter does the same thing.

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