Apart from support for transparency, GIF also is supports animations, limiting every frame to 256 preselected colors.

除了支持透明，GIF也支持动画，限定每帧为256颜色。

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It presents snapshot views of a system, even though there is limited support here and there to make these views more dynamic; for example, with Powerpoint custom animations and animated GIF files.

它们代表系统的快照视图，虽然各个地方也存在有限的支持来使得这些视图更加动态；例如，使用Powerpoint自定义动画和动画GIF文件。

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Gif's enduring popularity has also been helped by the fact it supports animations, making it easy for people to embed short clips into blogs, and copy and paste jokey looping video - such as odd actions by the actor James Van Der Beek - into discussion forums.

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