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what are the main problems with animated GIFs in your mind? for us being playable in just about every context on the web/mobile was really important
by dksf 13y ago
what are the main problems with animated GIFs in your mind? for us being playable in just about every context on the web/mobile was really important
- spinlockmusic 13y agoOne problem that I can think of is that the palette for each frame is restricted to 255 colors. That being said, there really isn't any other widely-supported option at this point :-). I like the app concept! Nice work!
- abhayv 13y agoBlippy co-founder here. Yes, GIF is a really old format. We have to work a lot on optimizing for performance. Surprising that it is the only popular one that allowed any animation. Others like Animated PNG did not take off.
- fragmede 13y agoMost animated GIF 'players' have zero controls for play, pause, feedback for buffering. It doesn't handle audio, and file sizes are huge.
- dksf 13y agoyup, we had to tradeoff controls, buffering, audio, and filesize for ubiquity of consumption and simplicity of user experience (i.e. inline/autoplay). Have you tried gifs in an iMessage? They're really fun to add to your texting!