Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs

Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs by andrewflnr on Friday September 14, 2012 @01:01PM (#4522654)

It's a hack. HN is for (among other things) news about hacks.

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Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs by peterwwillis on Friday September 14, 2012 @04:38PM (#4523825)

It's not really a hack. It's slowly printing a GIF for a kind of really limited server push. If you want to send someone messages via server-push in an old-school way, use multipart/x-mixed-replace.

A hack would be taking the input of a TV tuner card, converting the video to .gif frames, and printing that out slowly enough to view a slow video over a DSL line to watch TV without a media player.

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Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs by damncabbage on Saturday September 15, 2012 @03:56AM (#4525634)

It's not really a hack. ... A hack would be taking the input of a TV tuner card, ...

No True Scotsman: Hacker Edition?

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Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs by tcdent on Friday September 14, 2012 @05:17PM (#4524012)

Maybe not a great enough hack for you, but it's still a hack by definition; using something beyond it's intended purpose.

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Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs by jaylevitt on Saturday September 15, 2012 @02:45PM (#4526911)

No, a hack would be doing all that while building an abstraction layer around Google Calculator to act as a primitive CPU to do the GIF encode.

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