Comments on: A Short History of the GIF http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2012/12/a-short-history-of-the-gif.html Thu, 23 May 2013 06:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: John Dowdell http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2012/12/a-short-history-of-the-gif.html#comment-55615 John Dowdell Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:11:22 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/?p=8188#comment-55615 Hard-g “GIF” came when web designers first wanted to show pixel animation. Was very strange for those of us who frequented the graphics boards on CompuServe, but the new folks were so adamant….

(Does Vimeo not support GIFs…?)

]]> By: Paul Stonier http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2012/12/a-short-history-of-the-gif.html#comment-55606 Paul Stonier Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:17:01 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/?p=8188#comment-55606 Yep. Good to know. I go back and forth depending on what I think at that moment.

]]> By: Paul Stonier http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2012/12/a-short-history-of-the-gif.html#comment-55604 Paul Stonier Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:15:51 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/?p=8188#comment-55604 Whoa! My mind was just blown when I saw “Format” change to “Artform”

]]> By: Allen Cobb http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2012/12/a-short-history-of-the-gif.html#comment-55490 Allen Cobb Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:37:14 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/?p=8188#comment-55490 Good to know it’s pronounced like the peanut butter, since that’s how I’ve always said it. I feel profoundly vindicated after years of derision and marginalization by hard-G snobs. (No offense to Jeremy.)

[I'll go to my grave giving it a hard "G". I once heard someone say "You don't say 'Guh-PEG,'" and I thought, "Damn straight." --J.]

]]> By: Jeremy http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2012/12/a-short-history-of-the-gif.html#comment-55484 Jeremy Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:06:29 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/?p=8188#comment-55484 Rats, I’ve been pronouncing it wrong.

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