Today’s kids don’t understand the struggle of 8 color gifs
Neither do today’s adults, since gifs always allowed up to 256 colors. (The “8” you’re probably thinking of was the number of bits per pixel.)
256 colors per frame, and not all pixels have to change in each frame.
GIFs have transparency, but not alpha blending so it would have jagged edges. When PNGs were first supported by IE, you had to do some crazy ActiveX scripting calls to make it work.
At the time, Microsoft had shut down the IE team since they had beaten Netscape in the browser wars. If it hadn’t been for Firefox, we would be stuck with that crappy PNG implementation!
If it weren’t for firefox, we’d be stuck with a lot of shit
TGA! ALL THE WAY!
the only time i think I ever interacted with targa files was with team fortress 2, and probably valve games in general
I’ve never used tga in my life
Gifs: am i a joke to you?
PNGs: No, you just weren’t alpha enough!
Nah, they just had the interns rotoscoping everything manually
Back in my day we used BitBlt and we were damn grateful to have it!
I remember Targa. TGA had transparency and the format came around in '84.
GIF:
Am I a joke for you?
Everyone: yes
No, I wasn’t blessed. My modeling career is still a work in progress.
bring back bmp and tiff formats
PNG once appeared as likely to succeed as Firefox does now (not very). I can’t believe it finally achieved wide adoption.
But where’d the MNG and APNG go?
