WebP does everything GIF did, just better. The only problem is adoption. Maybe a similar, single-syllable name could have helped.

  • Ends the pronunciation debate: hard G in the 1987 filetype, soft G in the 2010 one
  • Looping soundless video gets a name that's short and does not refer to a terribly inefficient format (that "gif" sharing sites often no longer use anyway), plus some wrong people have been using it already
  • Software peer-pressured into supporting it (nobody wants to hear "they don't support JIF" about their software)
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[–] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How does it feel to have the objectively best sense of humor?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Okay so Jif for shorthand and Joojif for the full spelling. Just to make a call to their original misspelling of Googol

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