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What is the difference between GIF 87a and GIF 89a?

April 26, 2017GIF

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What is the difference between GIF 87a and GIF 89a?

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GIF 87a is the original production GIF format, and doesn’t support many of the features of GIF 89a. Particularly, GIF 87a does not support transparency, interlacing, or animation. The only advantage to GIF 87a is a marginally smaller file size for some images.