What's wrong with GIF? The patents expired back in 2004, the Compu$serve problem is gone.
I mean, other than idiots pronouncing it wrong.
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Twitter Bans Animated PNG Image Files After Attackers Target Users With Epilepsy
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What's wrong with GIF? The patents expired back in 2004, the Compu$serve problem is gone.
I mean, other than idiots pronouncing it wrong.
One needs to be a different kind of sick to target people with such sensitivities.
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You tell me what would you feel like if you suffered from such sensitivities or your kids did and someone were to target you or your kids in this fashion. Epilepsy is not a joke, and the intent of those who did this is not benevolent at all. It is digitally akin to shooting in the head for people with such sensitivities, in a way.
Well yeah, it's always better (if possible) to roll back and fix than to fix in-flight.
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It would be too low-framerate to be useful. Disabling autoplay sounds like the only good solution. I'll bet they just forgot to make that work for APNG or didn't realize it's a danger.
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Not that I'd agree with it in this case, but capital punishment doesn't have much to do with whether someone died.
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Well-intentioned users may post something epilepsy-triggering without knowing, and I'll bet they're a bigger problem than the attackers. APNG just has to respect the autoplay settings.
GIFs are pretty low in quality and inefficient. they also don't allow for transparency. there are a lot of requests from clients i work with where they want to do something creative, but i always tell them "nope, that's going to make the GIF over 20MB" or "sorry, you can't overlay using a GIF since GIF doesn't support transparency".
Are they dirtbags. Yes. If someone dies because of this. Absolutely try them for capital murder.
otherwise. assault. But no death penalty.
With those, if you *intentionally* expose someone to them knowing they're allergic, you can already get hit with things like attempted murder/poisoning.
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Can it happen? Yeah, but in this case the guy was intentionally targeting a twitter feed that would have potential victims.
Coincidentally the counter also happens to protect potential accidental exposures.
Talk about throwing the Internet out with the bath water. For every jerk or criminal you can name, I can name 100 people that made the world better through their invention or use of technology.
Whoever did this should be kicked in the n&^s, repeatedly, by the people who had seizures.
I hate how some people instead of using their skills to be a productive member of society decide to find new ways to hurt others for their own personal amusement. They’re disgusting.
Only need to reasons to kill them:
1. They can only handle 256 colors. People try to dither them which screws up the relatively simple compression.
2. Animated GIFs have awful compression again since each frame is compressed independently.
Apple Bonus Problem: No color management capability so colors from say desktop apps in the Display P3 colorspace get messed up.
If you drive, then you KNOW this is TRUE.
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These two statements (below) do not appear to have been written by the same person. How can Twitter say they were not aware and also that they don't know how many have been affected - and that implies they knew so they were being banned.
Yes, they MIGHT.
That is a bit different than, "Yes, they absolutely WILL."
I am not in anyway saying a seizure is fun or okay. Seizures are bad and not all the sort of thing at anyone wants to go through. They can, in the worst cases, be fatal. 1 in 1,000 people with epilepsy dies from SUDEP in a given year. While I can't find concrete numbers on how often people have seizures, I do know for a fact that people have seizures and recover from them without outside intervention.
Force feeding peanuts to someone with the allergy will ABSOLUTELY prevent them from breathing. This ABSOLUTELY will kill them.
If you can't tell the difference, you probably shouldn't be posting on the internet. The radiation from your devices
Again, not defending what they people did. I just think that we need to curb hyperbole.