[HN Gopher] Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF, has died
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Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF, has died
Author : coloneltcb
Score : 33 points
Date : 2022-03-23 20:16 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theverge.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theverge.com)
| qiskit wrote:
| In honor of stephen wilhite, though I am an ardent proponent of
| pronouncing gif with a hard g sound, I'll pronounce it as "jif"
| for the rest of the week.
| throw_m239339 wrote:
| RIP. Was there ever a widely adopted alternative to GIF in the
| browser for animated pictures (like PNG is to JPEG)? Or is using
| video formats in place of GIF made a replacement irrelevant?
| WalterGR wrote:
| Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) has broad browser and
| tooling support. (Which surprised me. I knew of the format but
| didn't know that it has become viable...)
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
| rainsil wrote:
| WebP images support animation, and they're fully supported in
| Chromium and Firefox[0], but Safari support seems flaky[1]
|
| [0]: https://caniuse.com/webp [1]:
| https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68522707/animated-webp-f...
| ratdragon wrote:
| F
| jka wrote:
| Stephen's obituary from the article is available here:
| https://www.megiefuneralhome.com/obituaries/?obId=24311617
|
| A credit from there, not mentioned in the article, is that at one
| time he was chief architect of America Online (AOL).
| bitemix wrote:
| Looks like he lived a full life.
|
| Not to be too crass, but... is it pronounced "Stefen" or
| "Steven"?
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