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Anonymous No.105702339 [Report] >>105702398 >>105702470 >>105703172 >>105703202 >>105703852 >>105704441 >>105705012 >>105705380
What is the point of a non-animated GIF? (Pronounced 'jiff')
Anonymous No.105702398 [Report] >>105702411
>>105702339 (OP)
What's the point of anything, really?
Anonymous No.105702411 [Report]
>>105702398
Anonymous No.105702470 [Report]
>>105702339 (OP)
Very simple lossless compression.
It made sense in a time before .png existed and processing power was very limited.
Anonymous No.105703172 [Report]
>>105702339 (OP)
putting a 50x50 pixel headshot non-animated gif (pronounced gif) on your website is a status symbol for boomer academics who want to show they've been hip on the internet since 1993. idk any other usecases in 2020+5
Anonymous No.105703202 [Report]
>>105702339 (OP)
gif in hell
Anonymous No.105703774 [Report] >>105704505
Anonymous No.105703852 [Report]
>>105702339 (OP)
Takes very little space if done right.
Anonymous No.105704343 [Report]
dumb frogposter
>>>/g/sqt
Anonymous No.105704441 [Report]
>>105702339 (OP)
It's a format designed back when computers could only show 256 colors at once, and is very good at compressing some types of image.
Anonymous No.105704505 [Report]
>>105703774
read that as "It's an Australian" and was even more confused. good shit, anon.
Anonymous No.105705012 [Report]
>>105702339 (OP)
i call them jewf
Anonymous No.105705380 [Report]
>>105702339 (OP)
It pre-dated PNG and is lossless, unlike JPEG