The word 'gif' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an image or video clip that moves on a loop, such as those typically used on social media or websites. For example, “I posted a gif of a cat playing the piano on Facebook.”.
Put him in the same room as a bacon sandwich right now and there'll be a GIF of him destroying it with eye-lasers by teatime.
The truth, revealed through a fun before/after gif, was rather underwhelming, as it transpired that Vogue had basically covered her boobs, shaved a little off her hips and popped her through a filter.
They could probably turn this shot into a five-second GIF, run it as a loop, screen it as the entire film and I suspect nobody would notice.
We don't process transparancy in a GIF or a PNG so it's best to stick to JPGs.
You needed a logo, preferably a gif to keep the page-loading time low.
It's a great opportunity to enjoy his wide-ranging and idiosyncratic selection of hand gestures, so here are a few of our favourites from the first debate, in handy moving gif form.
Q: Can I use an animated gif?
If that fails, he gives up in disgust and reads a newspaper instead.Back in the early days of the internet, when most web users relied on dial-up connections, browsers were crude and web graphics were clumsy GIF files, eight seconds was considered the maximum people would stick around for a page to load.
That much everyone agrees on.Much more controversial is how "GIF" ought to be pronounced.
It began with an innocent question by Kai Ryssdal, host of the public-radio programme "Marketplace", who asked, "GIF: soft 'g' or hard?" Farhad Manjoo, a columnist at Slate, replied authoritatively, "Soft".
One of his chastened co-workers e-mailed Babbage back in 1997 explaining how Mr Wilhite would remonstrate by belting out "Choosy programmers choose GIF" (a play on a classic advertising slogan, "choosy mothers choose Jif", for a homophonous peanut-butter brand).
