--- title: "The Fastest GIF Does Not Exist" url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-fastest-gif-does-not-exist-ggsfomegp source_url: https://www.biphelps.com/blog/The-Fastest-GIF-Does-Not-Exist type: article source: "Hacker News" published: 2022-02-20T18:52:42.343Z updated: 2022-02-20T18:52:42.349Z tags: ["firefox", "microsoft-edge"] reading_time: 9 upvotes: 12 comments: 1 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Fastest GIF Does Not Exist **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 9 min read · 12 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary GIFs have an optional "delay" value which determines how long that frame should be shown before moving on to the next one. The value can be set from 0 (no delay) to 0xffff (roughly a 10 minute delay) None of the programs that you'd typically be viewing GIFs with support 0 delay. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ignusg** · 1 upvotes > Alas, everyone copies everyone and no one remembers who and why they started it. > > #everymajorbrowser2022 ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#firefox](https://daily.dev/tags/firefox), [#microsoft-edge](https://daily.dev/tags/microsoft-edge) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-fastest-gif-does-not-exist-ggsfomegp)