Unfortunatly many sites today seem to have forgotten about the 8 second rule... You only have 8 seconds to capture the attention of someone browsing your site. And that includes load in time. GIFs tear the hell out of loadin time; being able to support a flexible palette is still a glorious idea and I know that GIFs have allowed me to create sites that load in in less that 4 seconds on 33.6 modems but with still really good graphics. While I might have a moral objection to GIF, I cant stop using them until I see an alternative that is able to give such small images. Because when you have 10-20 images 1k _does_ matter. Cheers, Secret Agent Conrad Uno
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Unfortunatly many sites today seem to have forgotten about the 8 second rule... You only have 8 seconds to capture the attention of someone browsing your site. And that includes load in time. GIFs tear the hell out of loadin time; being able to support a flexible palette is still a glorious idea and I know that GIFs have allowed me to create sites that load in in less that 4 seconds on 33.6 modems but with still really good graphics. While I might have a moral objection to GIF, I cant stop using them until I see an alternative that is able to give such small images. Because when you have 10-20 images 1k _does_ matter. Cheers, Secret Agent Conrad Uno