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4 items tagged “gif”

2020

gifcap (via) This is really neat: a purely client-side implementation of animated gif screen capture, using navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia for the screen capturing, mithril for the UI and the gif.js pure JavaScript GIF encoding library to render the output.

# 30th March 2020, 9:29 pm / gif, screencast, javascript

2013

Should I ever use GIF image format for non animated elements?

These days probably not—anything non-animated that you would use a GIF for is generally better as a PNG.

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2009

The GIF Pronunciation Page. It’s jiff. Here’s evidence.

# 11th June 2009, 10:50 pm / gif, images, pronunciation

2008

Poking new holes with Flash Crossdomain Policy File. This is an old article from 2006 which describes the crossdomain.xml hidden in a GIF exploit I referred to in an earlier post (scroll down to the appendix for an example). As far as I know the Flash Player’s crossdomain.xml parser has been tightened up since.

# 1st July 2008, 4:12 pm / flash, crossdomainxml, gif, security