I don’t know what Twitter does with the gifs but it freezes my old netbook when I try to play them. I can play videos from youtube but I can not play a gif on Twitter!
They convert it to video
Serve Videos Instead of GIFs
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#72The OP calls out a thoughtfully-designed, open source, screen recording software, Kap. [0] Even though Kap does not have annotation tools, I think it compares well with software recently featured on the front page of HN. [1]
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#73No thanks, my "This Site Under Construction" pixel art would look awful as a video. And last I checked, video didn't even support transparency!
Most video codecs have lossless modes.
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#74the videos don't play in safari, also there is no way to play them for me. They need a click handler with play().
Videos play just fine for me in Safari on MacOS.
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#75I 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.
exactly. gif is a choice about the limitations of what can happen. A gif will play and repeat with NO SOUND POSSIBLE.
Imagine a browser prompt for ”This site would like to play audio” alá ”This site would like to send you notifications”
Too bad that would break Youtube, so Chrome will never deliver it
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#76One important thing that was not mentioned in the article: gifs automatically play and are not easily stopped. Videos have more knobs on the client side to tweak whether it plays or not. If I use a gif, I know with great certainty that unless all images on the client are blocked they are going to see my animated content. There are tons of extensions and browser features out there that attempt to stop that feature fro…
Good? Should the user not be able to decide how something plays on their own machine?
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
This only worked properly in Firefox since 2016 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664717 so that's probably not it.
I'm pretty sure I was able to right-click save gifs all the way back to Netscape...
You can also right-click save the videos in the article right now. What I meant was copy and pasting GIFs.
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#78“ A single GIF can be larger than a typical website (over 2 MB).”
Not larger than today’s websites, that’s for sure.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
exactly. gif is a choice about the limitations of what can happen. A gif will play and repeat with NO SOUND POSSIBLE.
Imagine a browser prompt for ”This site would like to play audio” alá ”This site would like to send you notifications” Too bad that would break Youtube, so Chrome will never deliver it
Users having to click a prompt once to turn on audio would break youtube?
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
exactly. gif is a choice about the limitations of what can happen. A gif will play and repeat with NO SOUND POSSIBLE.
Imagine a browser prompt for ”This site would like to play audio” alá ”This site would like to send you notifications” Too bad that would break Youtube, so Chrome will never deliver it
Chrome is doing it on mobile to decide whether media should autoplay, except YouTube gets whitelisted by the heuristic (which they tuned for YouTube obviously)