Hey DC why u using on this Tag .gif that notneed , its not animated or something >
and this Here its code even u using again .gif <img src="img/x.gif" alt="smile">
@ Yates: I'm disappointed in you, that was quite understandable.
but perhaps because you're a native speaker, you understood it differently.
I noticed that non native speakers can understand a text with bad grammars better than native speakers because grammars don't make big difference to them, so they read it in a different way.
because even if a .gif has a single picture to show it still has a better quality than .bmp
Very, very wrong. The BMP format usually stores data in 24-bit colour, uncompressed. Usually, GIF stores a table of 256 24-bit colours ( this is why you see banding artefacts on most GIFs ), then uses LZW compression on the 8-bit index data. It does not have better quality.
also put it in relation to .png:
.png is interleaced and .gif too, the main difference is the filesize. .png > .gif
PNGs tend to be smaller than GIFs for diagrams and other pictures where there are large amount of a solid colour. Saying one is smaller than the other is a misconception as each have areas where they excel over the other.
I noticed that non native speakers can understand a text with bad grammars better than native speakers because grammars don't make big difference to them, so they read it in a different way.
Now take a look at my last 20 posts and realise I understood all of the people asking for help. This was just blasphemy.
Yeah that's why I said I was disappointed, I remember you helping that one guy with a rly shitty grammars which no one could understand, this one shouldn't be a problem
Probably just for consistency reasons, there's a lot of emoticons that have animations. So remembering which one is static (.png) and which is not (.gif) would annoying. Keeping them all one type would make it easier for DC.
Why not? Why do you even care? Does it matter in any way?
Originally GIFs were (in the beginning of the internet) famous for two different features: Transparent pixels (but only 100% transparent or 100% opaque, nothing inbetween) Animations
I used gif for many forum images because of the transparency feature, not because of the animation feature. GIFs don't have to be animated. They can just have one single frame. That's totally okay und fully supported.
Nowadays you could also use PNG instead of GIF but it doesn't make much of a difference (in other words: There is not a single reason to convert my GIFs to PNG). PNGs and especially PNGs with alpha channel (transparent pixels) were not supported by all browsers a few years ago that's why I chose GIF over PNG (and of course also because some of the images are animated and need to be GIF anyway and it's simply more consistent to use one format instead of many different formats like Apache uwu already pointed out).