Windows 10: Animated GIF Support Comes to Mail app in Windows 10

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N97 Amimated GIFs

You do realize that animated GIFs don't animate themselves right? The application opening the file has to "animate" it by rotating through the series of images or image differences.



The animated GIF file format was developed by CompuServe as an extension to their GIF format. It is backward compatible to GIF but is a different format by itself. So supporting GIF doesn't mean you have to support the animated extension.



Nokia supports GIF for Wallpapers, not animated GIF, that's why it only shows the first frame. Could be to conserve battery life, since performing the animation would require the processor to run and continuously update the screen.

 

slow decoding of GIF images

Hello again, Adi,

Thank you for performing the troubleshooting steps. I have done research on this and animated GIF support is still fairly new and also somewhat demanding on phones.

You said this was tested on imgur.com, but are there any other websites you are able to load GIFs from and have them work fine? It may be issues with that one website and it is worth a shot to try out others if you do have the time.

Animated GIFs are fully supported, but they do require resources that some phones may not be able to handle while multi-tasking. I tried out a GIF, an animated one, on a DELL Venue Pro. It skipped occasionally and was a small GIF. It did not, however,
come to an empty page.

If you search
GIF on the suggestions page for Windows Phone 7, many results come up. I recommending adding your votes to the list, even to just improve GIF support.

Best regards,