When you say historically, how far back are we going? I learnt html in 1999/2000 and was experimenting with the different save options in windows photo editor(?) on windows 98 or NT and that’s where I learnt about png and that it works on websites. I don’t think anyone else I knew at the time heard of anything besides jpg and gif for website images back then. But it did work and I used it on my Line Wars fansite on tripod.
PNG took forever to reach baseline usability. Obviously because of IE. I don’t remember exactly, but if you targeted IE you couldn’t use a lot of CSS features and PNG support was shaky at best. I think transparency in PNG just didn’t work.
We only had internet explorer in school. I think I didn’t even switch to old school Mozilla at home until after I finished sixth form in 2002, or maybe towards the end of my school days. PNG with transparency definitely worked on IE when I was making fansites on tripod or I wouldn’t have used it. I have a feeling I don’t have my old Line Wars site files anymore, but I’ll check next time I’m on the PC. I might have left them on floppy disks.
Tenor.com has lots of GIFs, and there’s a “CAPTION” option there
https://ezgif.com/add-text allows you to upload or give URL of a GIF, then add text to it. At the end you can convert to MP4 for smaller file size.
E.g. I did the Tenor way first time, got a GIF of 5.6 mb! 2nd time, I put the URL for the Tenor GIF into EZGIF, added the text there, & afterwards converted to MP4 to get a 440kb file. Kinder to fediverse hosts than a 5.6mb file!
its says gif but it’s not giffing
is this what happens when you look the gif horse in the mouth?
That’s what you get for pronouncing it like this:
Fun fact: the GIF image format actually supports still images. Occasionally, for some reason, people actually use it for that.
It’s great for certain images because it supports a restricted palette and doesn’t blur edges. It’s fantastic for sprites.
It’s not bad for 7-Ups, too
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.
When you say historically, how far back are we going? I learnt html in 1999/2000 and was experimenting with the different save options in windows photo editor(?) on windows 98 or NT and that’s where I learnt about png and that it works on websites. I don’t think anyone else I knew at the time heard of anything besides jpg and gif for website images back then. But it did work and I used it on my Line Wars fansite on tripod.
PNG took forever to reach baseline usability. Obviously because of IE. I don’t remember exactly, but if you targeted IE you couldn’t use a lot of CSS features and PNG support was shaky at best. I think transparency in PNG just didn’t work.
We only had internet explorer in school. I think I didn’t even switch to old school Mozilla at home until after I finished sixth form in 2002, or maybe towards the end of my school days. PNG with transparency definitely worked on IE when I was making fansites on tripod or I wouldn’t have used it. I have a feeling I don’t have my old Line Wars site files anymore, but I’ll check next time I’m on the PC. I might have left them on floppy disks.
I think someone took a screenshot of a moving gif. It’s I Dream of Jeannie doing her genie head nod.
I don’t know how to add words onto a GIF
There are a few online options
E.g. I did the Tenor way first time, got a GIF of 5.6 mb! 2nd time, I put the URL for the Tenor GIF into EZGIF, added the text there, & afterwards converted to MP4 to get a 440kb file. Kinder to fediverse hosts than a 5.6mb file!
Just realized I got the text wrong 😁
Oh for sure. I imagine it would be pretty difficult without having them like, baked into the gif when it gets made.