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)
  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    More than half. Less than 25% of people use the original pronunciation of gif, and two people in this thread have repeated the absurd misconceptions that popularized the new pronunciation.

    • WindyRebel@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Well, I like peanut butter and that’s how it’s pronounced. I guess I’m part of the quarter gang.

      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        There’s dozens of us! I’m just old enough to remember when the file format was new and people talked about it.