Advantages of Gifs P3

Advantages of Gifs

GIFs support transparent background so instead of using a plain background you could use a transparent background making your website more unique and interesting as well as having it combine very well with any GIFs you have on your site.

GIFs have a rather small file size, this is a big advantage over other file types as it allows them to be put on websites rather easily and hassle free.

GIFs compression type is lossless and so as it is saved multiple times the images will not deteriate making them more durable and good for distribution.

Disadvantages of Gifs

The maximum amount of colours that Gifs can show is 256 colours this is a big disadvantage if you are trying to create a very specific animation with very specific colour shades.

The users internet connection will have a big impact on the viewing of the GIFs , they do not usually take too much bandwidth to view and there is rarely problems, but for users on a dial up connection or a low broadband connection they would be hard to view and would be very blocky and would not be seen to the fully.

GIFs will only animate in browsers that support GIF animation so that will cause certain users using obscure browsers or with changed browser setting to be unable to see the animation.

Once the Gifs has been animated it does not become possible to go back and edit the GIF.

In order to upload a GIF to a webpage it must be a fairly small file size this means you are very limited to the animation possible and it can be a chore to keep the file size down.

There is no interactive aspects to gifs.