FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

UNDERSTANDING COMPUTER FILES

FILE EXTENSIONS AND FILE TYPES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This file type can display animations on websites
A
.png
B
.gif
C
.jpeg
D
.jpg
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -GIF image files are commonly used on the web to display graphics and logos. They also support basic animation, which means they’re a popular file format for memes on social media sites.

Detailed explanation-2: -A GIF is a lossless format for image files that supports both animated and static images. It was the standard for 8-bit colour images on the internet until PNG became a viable alternative. You may have seen them used often in email signatures. Animated GIFs are several images or frames combined into a single file.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is in GIF format i.e. Graphics Interchange Format file. We need to use the <image> tag with the src attribute to add an animated image in HTML. The src attribute adds the URL of the image (file destination). Also, we can set the height and width of the image using the height and width attribute.

Detailed explanation-4: -GIF stands for “Graphics Interchange Format”. It’s a bitmap image format which was created by CompuServe in 1987. This popular image format has a wide support base on the internet. GIF files are portable across various platforms and applications.

Detailed explanation-5: -GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) GIF uses the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) algorithm to losslessly compress 8-bit indexed color graphics. GIF was one of the first two graphics formats supported by HTML, along with XBM.

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