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Obituary for the GIF - rich2005 - 03-25-2022
...or rather the inventor
https://www.techradar.com/news/he-gave-us-the-gif-stephen-wilhite-has-died-at-74
Maybe it is time to retire the format as well...although all those animation makers will object.
RE: Obituary for the GIF - Ofnuts - 03-25-2022
(03-25-2022, 09:45 AM)rich2005 Wrote: ...although all those animation makers will object.
They can switch to WebP
RE: Obituary for the GIF - PixLab - 03-26-2022
(03-25-2022, 01:36 PM)Ofnuts Wrote:(03-25-2022, 09:45 AM)rich2005 Wrote: ...although all those animation makers will object.
They can switch to WebP
I did a try and... (I was aware about animated webP, but never tried)
Woww!
You just convinced me, size and look compared to gif is like comparing stone edge and nowadays.
I also learned that WebP supports 24-bit RGB color with an 8-bit alpha channel, compared to GIF's 8-bit color and 1-bit alpha ➤ Thus a way better image quality.
GIF ➤ 190 kB
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WebP ➤ 56 kB only...
[attachment=7682]
Thanks guys for the wake up
EDIT: do all webp showing a link on GF instead of an image...? You might need to update your website to show animated (or not?) webp directly in the post... that's a bit of a bummer to be obliged to click on the link... (in the end, may be it's websites slowing down the switch to webp...
)Also it could have been better to see the comparison on the same post/page
RE: Obituary for the GIF - Krikor - 03-26-2022
(03-26-2022, 07:09 AM)PixLab Wrote: EDIT: do all webp showing a link on GF instead of an image...? You might need to update your website to show animated (or not?) webp directly in the post... that's a bit of a bummer to be obliged to click on the link... (in the end, may be it's websites slowing down the switch to webp...
Also it could have been better to see the comparison on the same post/page
That's what Tim did days ago, he enabled .webp format in GL - https://gimplearn.net/viewtopic.php?p=40221#p40221
RE: Obituary for the GIF - PixLab - 03-26-2022
(03-26-2022, 10:59 AM)Krikor Wrote: That's what Tim did days ago, he enabled .webp format in GL - https://gimplearn.net/viewtopic.php?p=40221#p40221
Indeed it works like a charm https://gimplearn.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3159&p=40375#p40375