No. Not everything is about increasing in efficiency. GIFs are a throwback to the charm and chaos of the early days of the web, and I hope they stay part of the fabric of it long into the future.
Serve Videos Instead of GIFs
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#12I would be happy if i got 2mb GIFs these days. You click on something that ends with gif or mp4 and you get half a megabyte of tracking javascript instead of the file you expected.
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#13Serve videos as videos. Photo data compresses better with Jpeg. But gifs are still a better option for animated illustrated graphics.
Why is JPEG the de facto lossy compression format for photos? It always bugs me that video formats get something new every 5 or so years yet photos are in JPEGs for decades.
iOS has been slowly making HEIF more common. It’s just that it takes a long time for the entire tooling chain to support it.
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#14I can't right click / long tap and copy and paste a video into another app
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#15I mean I like GIFs, but when I'm checking specific subreddits or going over Imgur frontpage. Companies are using too many GIFs nowadays in their blogs.
I'd really rather not we go down the rabbit hole of "class"ifying websites by their method of serving animated clips. GIFs have trade-offs, but on balance they're the most useful for their purpose.
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#16I can't right click / long tap and copy and paste a video into another app
That’s really an application issue, but god damn is it an annoying one.
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#17Isn't this exactly what animated WebP [1] is supposed to address? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP#Animation
You might as well use APNG then, which is more widely supported too.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is JPEG the de facto lossy compression format for photos? It always bugs me that video formats get something new every 5 or so years yet photos are in JPEGs for decades.
iOS has been slowly making HEIF more common. It’s just that it takes a long time for the entire tooling chain to support it.
HEIF is patent-encumbered and a non-starter.
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#19Isn't this exactly what animated WebP [1] is supposed to address? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP#Animation
Yes, and would Apple please support WebP in Safari as the only remaining holdout? Before we all just boycott Safari and go ahead and use WebP anyways.
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#20No thanks, my "This Site Under Construction" pixel art would look awful as a video. And last I checked, video didn't even support transparency!
Transparency is supported now.