• Gestrid@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    That’s… a great question. What’s the purpose of a gif with only one frame?

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      6 months ago

      You’re young. Young enough to have to google my username meaning. Maybe also google what GIF means: Graphics Interchange Format. Long tima go you could find images on the internet, and they were always GIF, because JPG didn’t exist.

      But yes, it’s quite strange nowadays, I agree <grin> Oh, yes, I used the net before smileys were a thing :-)

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      6 months ago

      The same purpose as a PNG or JPEG?

      You know that GIF is not specifically a format for animations, right? It’s just a lossless image format.

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        6 months ago

        Yeah, but it’s almost always used for animations. Seeing one that’s not animated just feels… weird.

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          6 months ago

          Now, that’s just a recent development. 20 years ago it was a common format for images on the interwebs.