And that’s how they were used until Netscape 2.0 came along in 1995 and introduced the looping extension that set GIF animations free, bringing them to life.īack in those days, the internet was under construction, and so was the GIF. GIFs were actually designed to hold multiple images in a single file, kind of like a ZIP file for images. So how did we end up here, in this online world, where GIFs are the go-to format for animations? “ The Graphics Interchange Format is not intended as a platform for animation, even though it can be done in a limited way.” In fact, it says so right there, in black and white, in the GIF89a specification published in 1990: The GIF file format was never intended to be used for animation or video. How GIFs Became Pseudo Videos in the First Place
In this post, I’ll show you just how easy it is to convert GIFs to HTML5 video and achieve incredibly small file sizes for your site.
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