| ▲ | pavlov 6 hours ago | |
> “Smoothly rendering a GIF” Animated GIF is a format that was designed for playback on late 1980s PCs with a 20 MHz 386 and VGA graphics… If anything, this example proves the point that we’ve made the simple stuff much too complex. The GIF format hasn’t changed, but somehow getting those indexed color frames to screen on time now requires a GHz core. | ||
| ▲ | masfuerte 6 hours ago | parent [-] | |
GIF playback should be efficient but... About twenty years ago I was generating long animated GIFs. They worked fine in Firefox. In Internet Explorer they started fine but became jankier as playback progressed. I realised that every time IE displayed a frame it was rereading the entire file from the beginning to get to the current frame. Which took longer and longer as the current frame advanced. It's just so easy to squander performance without noticing. | ||