It feels like the GIF has had a huge revitalization of recent time . masses are makingmore tremendous animations than ever , GIF wasofficially the Word of 2012 , andin December there was even a GIF Fest in Miami . But it turns out GIF purpose is really in decline .
https://gizmodo.com/the-very-best-gifs-of-2012-5967899
Web Technology Serviceshas been poke its nose aroundto find out about image use across the internet . But it ’s bad tidings for the GIF : for the first time ever , the PNG has overtaken it in terms of ubiquity . The PNG is now used on 62.4 pct of all websites , compared to the GIF which is used on 62.3 percent . One class ago , the GIF was leading the race by a unclouded 15 percentage .
So why the shift?Web Technology Surveys explains :
[ I]t ’s the technical superiority that now convince webmasters to pick out PNG over GIF . PNG event in smaller files most of the time , it supports a much panoptic reach of color depths and transparency options . The only feature where GIF still shines is its support for animation . However , most people find that trip the light fantastic toe icon on a web site make it look like it has n’t been redesigned in the last 15 years . Animation is mostly used for ads nowadays , and even there , animated GIF ’s would be considered the poor man substitute to Flash .
The GIF was was first introduce by CompuServe in 1987 , which means the file data formatting is now over 25 years old . Can it see through another 25 ?
Update : As Jesus Diaz points out in the discussion below , this is n’t really an animated GIF yield . For lucidness :
Animated GIFs are more used and democratic than ever , their usage is in the gain . What shift the residuum to PNGs are the user user interface chemical element . Where web developer used to use tons of static GIFs , now they are using PNGs , which are intrinsically better for this because they apply 8 - spot alpha TV channel ( transparence ) instead of the 1 - bit used in GIFs . The 8 - piece alpha transparence consequence in 256 levels , which makes elements fuse together nicely vs the crappy look 1 - bit GIF .
So yes , PNGs are more popular now concord to this metric , but that does n’t mean a decline in the animated GIF usage .
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