Stephen Wilhite, a computer programmer who invented the GIF, the humble but versatile file format that became an Internet mainstay, helping people share charts, photographs and viral animations ...

Stephen Wilhite, a computer programmer who invented the gif, the humble but versatile file format that became an internet mainstay, helping people share charts, photographs and viral animations ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which manages web standards and guidelines, recently published new specifications for ...

It allows for animated PNG files that work similarly to animated GIF files, while supporting 24-bit images and 8-bit transparency not available for GIFs. It also retains backward compatibility ...