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Blippy Reborn - GIF's on your iPhone

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Post by ericwu01 » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 7:17 PM UTC

Blippy Reborn - GIF's on your iPhone
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Post by dksf » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 7:31 PM UTC

We're really excited to bring GIFs to the iPhone!

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Post by akitchell » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 7:34 PM UTC

Slick tool --

Definitely amplifies the ability of anyone to create novel GIFs to share with friends.

Something tells me there is a pretty big audience for this tool. I dig it!

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Post by fragmede » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 7:34 PM UTC

Animated GIF are the worse-is-better solution of moving images, yet I can't argue with their popularity.

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Post by dksf » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 7:36 PM UTC

fragmede wrote: post #4

Animated GIF are the worse-is-better solution of moving images, yet I can't argue with their popularity.

what are the main problems with animated GIFs in your mind? for us being playable in just about every context on the web/mobile was really important

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Post by brianbreslin » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 7:59 PM UTC

My first thought was "what do automated sharing of purchases have to do with animated GIFs?"

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Post by dksf » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 8:21 PM UTC

brianbreslin wrote: post #6

My first thought was "what do automated sharing of purchases have to do with animated GIFs?"

hahaha... well, they're both silly ideas? :)

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Post by spinlockmusic » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 8:56 PM UTC

dksf wrote: post #5

fragmede wrote: post #4

Animated GIF are the worse-is-better solution of moving images, yet I can't argue with their popularity.

what are the main problems with animated GIFs in your mind? for us being playable in just about every context on the web/mobile was really important

One problem that I can think of is that the palette for each frame is restricted to 255 colors. That being said, there really isn't any other widely-supported option at this point :-).

I like the app concept! Nice work!

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Post by abhayv » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 9:31 PM UTC

spinlockmusic wrote: post #8

dksf wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what are the main problems with animated GIFs in your mind? for us being playable in just about every context on the web/mobile was really important

One problem that I can think of is that the palette for each frame is restricted to 255 colors. That being said, there really isn't any other widely-supported option at this point :-). I like the app concept! Nice work!

Blippy co-founder here. Yes, GIF is a really old format. We have to work a lot on optimizing for performance. Surprising that it is the only popular one that allowed any animation. Others like Animated PNG did not take off.

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Post by fragmede » Thu, Nov 14, 2013, 9:57 PM UTC

dksf wrote: post #5

fragmede wrote: post #4

Animated GIF are the worse-is-better solution of moving images, yet I can't argue with their popularity.

what are the main problems with animated GIFs in your mind? for us being playable in just about every context on the web/mobile was really important

Most animated GIF 'players' have zero controls for play, pause, feedback for buffering. It doesn't handle audio, and file sizes are huge.