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)
Only if they claimed it would as Spanish language inspired and insisted it was pronounced hif
More like heef if we were using spanish pronunciation.
I prefer the German style
GIF is way too short to be German.
Hint: the German J makes an English “Y” sound.