GNOME Developer Comes Up With New Animated Image Format

[erendorn]

Inefficient storage/memory isn't a huge issue. The main intended usage for this is self-contained illustrations, which are usually low bandwidth. Like these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Circle_cos_sin.gif And if it's abused for lolcat videos, who cares about the bandwidth if it is entertaining?

Ah thanks, I was wondering what a real usecase was, as gifs nowadays are mostly used to display small videos, and as animated UI elements and animated smileys should simply be forbidden
But wikipedia has indeed many interesting animated graphs, which are indeed not suitably replaceable by video elements.

[Chewi]

I was pleasantly surprised to find that this even works in Opera 12. And it works well.