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Posted January 30, 2016
Sometimes emotions are best expressed in a .gif.

To wit...
Posted January 30, 2016
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mechmouse: For those that remember the early days of the internet, we can remember a time full of hideous constantly complaining old people polluting the webpages.

A few years later, most of those old people were dead, and only a few of them were still around, lurking on pages built in the late 90's or posting their complaints on the Mad cat lady's blog.

But in the last few years I've seen them coming back.
They didn't come back. People who were young in the 90's are now old, and they are bitter and they complain.
Posted January 30, 2016
Hmmm GIF is&was for the www communication not for the internet a worst thing.
If you like to know more?
@31C3 in the year 2014 it was a speech about GIF by Felix Muetze, who called:
.gif - Death of a medium and his life after that:
You can see it in original german and a english translation her:
https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6325_-_de_-_saal_g_-_201412281600_-_gifs_tod_eines_mediums_und_sein_leben_nach_dem_tod_-_felix_mutze#download
Posted January 30, 2016
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mechmouse: For those that remember the early days of the internet, we can remember a time full of hideous constantly looping gifs polluting the webpages.

A few years later the use of animated gifs was severely frowned upon. They made websites look cheap and unprofessional.

By 2010 they had all but gone, only appearing on pages still lurking from the late 90's or adorning the borders of the Mad cat lady's blog.

But in the last years I've seen them coming back.
Indeed, this is the 21st century, you'd think we would have moved to PNGs by now.
Posted January 30, 2016
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misteryo: People who were young in the 90's are now old, and they are bitter and they complain.
Careful, they might resent that and complain about it as well.
Posted January 30, 2016
Maybe because of ad-blockers?
Posted January 31, 2016
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mechmouse: For those that remember the early days of the internet, we can remember a time full of hideous constantly complaining old people polluting the webpages.

A few years later, most of those old people were dead, and only a few of them were still around, lurking on pages built in the late 90's or posting their complaints on the Mad cat lady's blog.

But in the last few years I've seen them coming back.
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misteryo: They didn't come back. People who were young in the 90's are now old, and they are bitter and they complain.
Gerroff Me Lawn!
Posted January 31, 2016
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hedwards: Indeed, this is the 21st century, you'd think we would have moved to PNGs by now.
Animated GIFs are still the most widely supported animated file format, which works on most browsers and doesn't require any plugins.

I use them myself when I write walkthroughs for games, and need to have some puzzle explained visually.
Posted January 31, 2016
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hedwards: Indeed, this is the 21st century, you'd think we would have moved to PNGs by now.
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PixelBoy: Animated GIFs are still the most widely supported animated file format, which works on most browsers and doesn't require any plugins.

I use them myself when I write walkthroughs for games, and need to have some puzzle explained visually.
People who use those browsers are already asking for it. All modern browsers support APNGs with the exception of Chrome and Opera for mobile. And Chrome does have an extension for that.

It's really about time that people stopped letting idiots using inferior browsers hold the internet back. This bullshit has been going on for decades now and won't stop if people keep humoring lazy developers.
Posted January 31, 2016
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mechmouse: For those that remember the early days of the internet, we can remember a time full of hideous constantly looping gifs polluting the webpages.

A few years later the use of animated gifs was severely frowned upon. They made websites look cheap and unprofessional.

By 2010 they had all but gone, only appearing on pages still lurking from the late 90's or adorning the borders of the Mad cat lady's blog.

But in the last years I've seen them coming back.
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hedwards: Indeed, this is the 21st century, you'd think we would have moved to PNGs by now.
Unfortunately APNG never became very popular. Animated imagery with 24-bit colour and 8-bit alpha transparency!
Posted January 31, 2016
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hedwards: Indeed, this is the 21st century, you'd think we would have moved to PNGs by now.
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Maighstir: Unfortunately APNG never became very popular. Animated imagery with 24-bit colour and 8-bit alpha transparency!
From what I can tell, all major browsers support it, except for chrome. And chrome only lacks support because they use libpng and that hasn't got support for it. Adding ti there would probably fix the problem for any remaining browsers.
Posted January 31, 2016
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Maighstir: Unfortunately APNG never became very popular. Animated imagery with 24-bit colour and 8-bit alpha transparency!
In at least one instance i found APNGs useful, since the amount of colors needed for a short skit was far exceeding 256 (or rather, dithering to 256 made it look awful). I've also experimented with gifs, or rather doing 256 colors at a time until an entire 24bit image was completed...

Maybe you'd like it :)
Posted January 31, 2016
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Maighstir: Unfortunately APNG never became very popular. Animated imagery with 24-bit colour and 8-bit alpha transparency!
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rtcvb32: In at least one instance i found APNGs useful, since the amount of colors needed for a short skit was far exceeding 256 (or rather, dithering to 256 made it look awful). I've also experimented with gifs, or rather doing 256 colors at a time until an entire 24bit image was completed...

Maybe you'd like it :)
Yeah, a fairly rarely used feature of GIF is that each frame can have their own 256-colour palette (of which one can be set to transparency, so it's really 255 visible colours) out of a full 24-bit colour space, which you can use - in combination with earlier frames being visible wherever the current frame is transparent - to build up a full-colour image over time.

Such sorcery isn't required with APNG, and there's the option for alpha transparency.
Post edited January 31, 2016 by Maighstir
Posted February 01, 2016
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Licurg: What's wrong with gifs ?

<Not Safe For Work>http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b398/heat_fusion/600full-hitomi-tanaka.gif</Not Safe For Work>
There is something wrong.
Gifs have no sound.
I want to hear the boobs bouncing, dammit.
Post edited February 10, 2016 by Firek
Posted February 01, 2016
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Licurg: What's wrong with gifs ?

<Not Safe For Work>http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b398/heat_fusion/600full-hitomi-tanaka.gif</Not Safe For Work>
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SEAJAR: There is something wrong.
Gifs have no sound.
I want to hear the boobs bouncing, dammit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jahrY0VkhqY
Post edited February 10, 2016 by Firek
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