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Re:Born of Reddit, Imgur now dwarfs the ‘front page of the I... by ProblemFactory on Friday September 27, 2013 @04:49AM (#6455986)
A friend of mine is working on http://www.giflike.com/

It's "like animated gifs", but implemented with JPEGs + javascript. JPEG encoding is much more efficient for photos, and doing the animation in javascript enables fun features such as reversing and scrolling through frames in the browser.

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Re:Born of Reddit, Imgur now dwarfs the ‘front page of the I... by lrem on Friday September 27, 2013 @05:26AM (#6456097)
So, he is reinventing MJPEG, in Javascript...

I can't find the proper words to comment this.

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Re:Born of Reddit, Imgur now dwarfs the ‘front page of the I... by johansch on Friday September 27, 2013 @10:41AM (#6457222)
How about "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"? :)
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Re:Born of Reddit, Imgur now dwarfs the ‘front page of the I... by nikcub on Friday September 27, 2013 @11:52AM (#6457600)
There was a codec in the mid-90s that porn sites and some illegal warez groups used that was essentially this. At the time your options were either AVI or a very expensive commercial solution, so someone came up with splitting video files into JPEG's and streaming them over the web and using javascript to slice them back together.

I remember watching star wars on one of the earliest web streaming sites - the image was around 150x150px and would refresh once per second. It was still the most awesome thing I had ever seen at the time, though.

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Re:Born of Reddit, Imgur now dwarfs the ‘front page of the I... by wiml on Friday September 27, 2013 @03:36PM (#6459013)
It was probably multipart/x-mixed-replace, rather than javascript.
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