[Coco] . Gif
    RETRO Innovations 
    go4retro at go4retro.com
       
    Thu Mar 24 10:24:03 EDT 2022
    
    
  
On 3/24/2022 8:58 AM, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
>   
> Animated GIF’s we’re extensions to GIF added by Netscape; while the original 1987 GIF spec from Compuserve did support
> multiple rectangular areas to draw in, it didn’t have the special headers that defined timings between each area being drawn, whether the animation went on forever or stopped. etc.
Is there a source to cite for Netscape's contribution?  Animated GIFs 
were format 89a, whereas the original was 87a. 89a included timing 
information and such and predates (1989 versus 1993) work on Netscape.
https://www.prepressure.com/library/file-formats/gif
Jim
    
    
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