What might that alternative be?  You did not offer any suggestions.

If I wish to distribute animated graphics files, is there any other choice?
(Not a "real soon now" solution, but one that is readable by virtually all,
here and now.)

GIF, by the way, for some types of work, actually seems the SUPERIOR format,
at least compared to JPG.

When PNG becomes universal (and animated), the issue might become moot.
Until then, GIF hardly seems "out" to me.  Unless I'm missing something.

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message news:3a795aaf@news.povray.org...
>   In my opinion choosing an alternative is a good choise even if you live
> in a country where there are no software patents.
>   GIF sucks. It's a braindead image format.
>   It was acceptable 10 years ago, when a display of 256 colors was luxury.
> Nowadays it's out.
>
> --
> char*i="b[7FK@`3NB6>B:b3O6>:B:b3O6><`3:;8:6f733:>::b?7B>:>^B>C73;S1";
> main(_,c,m){for(m=32;c=*i++-49;c&m?puts(""):m)for(_=(
> c/4)&7;putchar(m),_--?m:(_=(1<<(c&3))-1,(m^=3)&3););}    /*- Warp -*/

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