However, Live Photos slowly started appearing on Facebook, as well. Its mobile suite, GIF Maker, already allowed you to turn Live Photos into GIFs you could share on the desktop site, but now it seems you won’t have to – well, unless you want to share them elsewhere; most of the web still doesn’t support the format.
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Tumblr was the first third-party app to support Live Photos-you could even GIF ’em.
When Apple introduced Live Photos past year it was a cool trick that lived only on Apple devices.
As you can see for yourself on Tumblr’s announcement post, viewing Live Photos online will be just like doing so on an iPhone – simply click and hold an image to watch it animate.
As Tumblr holds onto the claim that it is the first to support Live Photos on the web the Verge has it that some independent developers have previously done the same though it was not easy. One area that has lagged in support for Live Photos, however, is the web. However, they are now coming to the web for the first time thanks to Tumblr. We’re open sourcing the javascript library for any webmaster to use: GitHub and npm.
How much more will the Live Photos spread beyond mobile?
The company did not dive into the details but according to TechCrunch, how they got it to work is by converting the video from.mov to.mp4, and then combining it with the JPEG via its Laphs solution.
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The company said that it’s working on supporting Live Photos in Android. Very possibly, so if you do frequent Tumblr, do keep an eye out for it.
