2026-09-07 04:05 UTC
Fun fact: the GIF image format actually supports still images. Occasionally, for some reason, people actually use it for that.
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@mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2026-09-07 06:45
It’s great for certain images because it supports a restricted palette and doesn’t blur edges. It’s fantastic for sprites.
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@Tanoh@lemmy.world 2026-09-07 07:39
Historically, non-animated .gif had some uses. For example small border insets in webpages, when the limited (or non-existant) CSS wasn’t enough. JPEG is awful at straight corners and lines, basically anything that isn’t a photo. PNG didn’t exist back then.