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Every pricing page should have GIFs

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Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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IIRC, ~everything other than Apple devices works with vp8 and webm. Apple devices like mp4 and x264.

Non apple devices are also fine with h264. AFAIK it’s the video codec with the most support and what I would pick if I’m going to be throwing the one same file at every device.

Firefox doesn't support it out-of-the-box.

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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I agree but I think there's a good balance: have a little "hover over me" widget. If you hate popups it's easy to avoid the widget, and it makes the hover experience more consistent as you move from line to line (assuming the widget is at the front so they all line up vertically)

I prefer clicks to hovers for this reason. A simple (Show example) button or (?) clickable question mark that spawns a small modal in-place and takes focus is more accessible, and there is no ambiguity of intent.

Yeah that's a good point. Clicks might work better here than hovers.

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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If you can't even define them, then that's probably for the best

You don't need to freak out every time someone invents a new word construction. I understood the comment perfectly the first time, which brings us to 2/3 other commenters having grocked it immediately. Wait, grocked is a made up word too. Pretend I said understand.

There was a freakout?

Also, it's "grokked", but I'll just pretend that you spelled it correctly instead.

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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Well, Firefox blocks gifs to me too. It depends on how you configure it. Any option you choose, make sure the first frame is informative.

The vast vast majority of people don't configure their browsers at all. What matters is what the defaults are.

By default Firefox blocks anything that has audio, and lets anything that is mute play. In fact, now that I searched it again, it seems that there is no option to make gifs behave differently from video files anymore.

That's not what the GP saw.

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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You don't need to freak out every time someone invents a new word construction. I understood the comment perfectly the first time, which brings us to 2/3 other commenters having grocked it immediately. Wait, grocked is a made up word too. Pretend I said understand.

There was a freakout? Also, it's "grokked", but I'll just pretend that you spelled it correctly instead.

What else would you call jumping into a conversation just to make multiple comments about how you don't like someone's word choice?

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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There was a freakout? Also, it's "grokked", but I'll just pretend that you spelled it correctly instead.

What else would you call jumping into a conversation just to make multiple comments about how you don't like someone's word choice?

I'm not sure, but I wish you would stop doing it already.

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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post #124

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Yes, at least in Safari on iOS. If you properly mark it muted it will autoplay when asked. I believe the user can change the setting to "Never Autoplay" instead of "Stop Media with Sound" but the default only affects with sound.

Have you tested if that works in low-power mode? I know low power mode usually disables autoplay, and a lot of users have it on for significant parts of their daily usage

Low power mode doesn't affect autoplay for me in Safari
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