GIF is a terrible format for video, but OTOH it's fairly lightweight for the browser for simple animation. Historically, playing video in the browser has required loading plugins, increasing the attack surface of the browser quite a bit, as well as inflating memory usage, increasing fragility, etc.
HTML5 video is also blocked by my flash blocker. Up until the latest version of Firefox, animated gifs were blocked by my use of image.animation_mode:once in about:config. Providing the element is clickable, the flash blocker makes it easier to play back the desired video on demand.
but OTOH it's fairly lightweight for the browser for simple animation.
Historically, this hasn't been the case. Certain browsers used to process the entire gif up to the current frame when rendering a new frame, causing long gif animations to slow down progressively.
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GIF is a terrible format for video, but OTOH it's fairly lightweight for the browser for simple animation. Historically, playing video in the browser has required loading plugins, increasing the attack surface of the browser quite a bit, as well as inflating memory usage, increasing fragility, etc.
HTML5 video is also blocked by my flash blocker. Up until the latest version of Firefox, animated gifs were blocked by my use of image.animation_mode:once in about:config. Providing the element is clickable, the flash blocker makes it easier to play back the desired video on demand.
Historically, this hasn't been the case. Certain browsers used to process the entire gif up to the current frame when rendering a new frame, causing long gif animations to slow down progressively.
That sounds like a "feature" which could be used in interesting ways.
Gif is terible. APNG are way better but only firefox support them. https://people.mozilla.org/~dolske/apng/demo.html
Is OTOH really an acronym people are using now?
Earliest usage of the term I can of the term on newsgroups is 1988.
I was certainly using it in the early 90s.
Weird. I've been online since the mid 90's, mostly on IRC and newsgroups, and have never seen it. TIL.
AFAIK, yeah.
IIRC it's been at least a decade.
TBH I've used it for over a decade.
I've seen this used on IRC for approximately 7 years.