And how is that gif pronounced?
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dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 9 months agoApparently it’s this new file format called .gif where you can compress videos into a small file that any browser can read
Slovene@feddit.nl 9 months ago
eggymachus@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
gif.
Nunya@lemdro.id 9 months ago
Exactly right. I hate it when people pronounce it as gif instead.
BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 9 months ago
compress
Ugh, they don’t seem to do a good job on that.🫤
Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s pretty clever, would have been ideal for a 20 year old feature phone.
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
funnily enough, GIF is a lossles file format. but it only allows 8-bit color.
Venat0r@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The compression usually happens before it is saved as a gif. It can use 8-bit colours, but it takes up less space if you use fewer.
pipows@lemmy.today 9 months ago
Does it index the colors?
Venat0r@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yep, I think so, I haven’t looked at the standard, just assuming from the gif save dialog in photoshop.