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Re:Show HN: Gifcap, a browser based client-side GIF screen r... by greggman3 on Monday March 30, 2020 @12:29PM (#22729397)
I find this particularly annoying. Back in the early 2000s I wrote some small app to generate static webpages for photo collections to be put on CD because OSes couldn't browse jpgs natively but browsers could. Now the problem has gone the other way, my iPhone and Android save HEIF but I can't use those on the web. I have to first go through a manual conversion process. It's like my computers have regressed 20 years.
Re:Show HN: Gifcap, a browser based client-side GIF screen r... by jacobush on Monday March 30, 2020 @01:02PM (#22729798)
GIFs are the new VHS - bad quality, bulky, slow - but truly ubiquitous.
Re:Show HN: Gifcap, a browser based client-side GIF screen r... by jacobush on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:27AM (#22736317)
... and maybe a certain charm. My VHS collection implies there must be some charm to VHS - and a grainy meme clip with 100% guarantee of no sound has a certain charm too.