Is this true? I don't know anything about that...

isnt it just a video compressed down and made into a picture format
it has frames like a video

>>56914605
Looks like bollocks

>>56914759
Pretty much. GIF is technically a video format. People just semantically treat it like an image format for whatever reason.

it's just one or more independent images (frames) each with a display time (in milliseconds)

technically a video format, but very basic for one, no audio support and terribly inefficient coding for motion (unlike most video formats, there's no inter-frame compression/motion compensation)

>>56914952
-- oh, for motion, there is that trick where you turn unchanged pixels into transparent ones, for a pseudo-inter-frame coding

but that's a bit of a hack, and something that is applied prior to gif encoding

>>56914966

too much of a hassle now that webm support exists almost everywhere

>>56914605
bump