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

256 ftl

Invent it and call it '.btg'.

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Microsoft has you covered, just wait a bit longer

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

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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

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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.

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