Proposal for another step forward - animated gifs

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Szabó Nagy Attila

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Nov 21, 2015, 2:01:31 PM11/21/15

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Dear devs!

How about using animated gif badges?
Is it possible to encode the json-ld data into an animated gif?
I tried to look it up and it seems like the structure of the gif is allowing to do steganography.

I think it would be awesome to have animated gifs as badges, it would open up new doors for badge-design which maybe we are not even aware about.
And it would finally start to use the potential of the digital media in displaying the achievements.

What do you think?

-Attila

Nate Otto

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Nov 24, 2015, 12:01:28 PM11/24/15

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The GIF spec is patent-encumbered, so that's a -1 for adopting it. I'd be interested in your thoughts on how the OB data could be embedded in the image files though. When I took a cursory look at GIF, it seemed more complicated than SVG or PNG.

However, SVG, which is already a declared Open Badges container format has the ability to animate as well. Works best with vector paths, of course: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/animate.html This can already be used for all platforms that support SVG-SMIL