Escaping from QT

[stephen barncard]

Animated gifs are terrible for anything with much resolution.
256 colors, indexed.
Animated gifs are good for logos and block images but not gradients.  And
they still stall in Rev if anything else is going on.

Compuserve invented and owned the patents on the .gif format up until a few
years ago. Early on Compuserve tried to collect on every use of the every
gif.  It was a major reason for the superior open source PNG format to be
created.

On the horizon, working today: ANIMATED PNG<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG>

this link works in Firefox, but not in Safari:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG        (72k)

I hope this gets standardized. Beautiful. Nice gradients.

"Mozilla's role in extending the PNG format to APNG echoes
Netscape<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape>'s
much earlier role in popularizing animated
GIFs<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format#Animated_.gif>
."

perhaps we can coerce the mother ship to include it someday...
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Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev


2009/9/16 Richmond Mathewson <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>

> I have just discovered a quick way to run up an animated GIF from an image
> sequence (rather than plonking every frame in place and getting w*****'s
> (err . . . wrist) cramp doing it:
>
> Get a copy of GIMP:
>
>