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Posted by BTG on Aug-09-2007 02:11:

gif technology

why havn't they made a gif 2.0 with full 24 bit colour?!

256 ftl

Posted by Ygrene on Aug-09-2007 03:21:

Invent it and call it '.btg'.

Posted by Masonious on Aug-09-2007 03:22:

Microsoft has you covered, just wait a bit longer

Posted by Abercrombie on Aug-09-2007 04:51:

256 is max on a gif... it's a very old format that goes way back to Compuserve.

Posted by mezzir on Aug-09-2007 05:22:

quote:
Originally posted by Abercrombie
256 is max on a gif... it's a very old format that goes way back to Compuserve.

lol yeah, before i realized it was the best/only good way to use animations, i'd never use them

and i still get angry when people save plain pictures as gif's

Posted by eulerfx on Aug-09-2007 06:26:

that would require a commercially unviable software engineering effort to create the standard, followed by commercially unviable efforts for implementations. moreover, there is an existing format for animated PNGs.