In a technical context, yes, a GIF refers to a specific image format. However, plenty of people now use “gif” to mean any short soundless video loop, regardless of how that video is stored.
It’s silly, but I can see how it happened.
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Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoIt is not an animated gif. That is an animated webp.
shiny_idea@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
TIL animated webp is a thing and somehow it’s actually supported by firefox, amazing