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I already said that before and I'll do it again: it won't work until we make videos act like gifs, which act like images. The video per se won't loop if I save it in my computer or phone. I can't drag and drop, right click, long tap. To have anything replacing gif you need THE EXACT SAME BEHAVIOUR, EVERYWHERE. It doesn't matter for the consumer whose fault it is: encoding, the app, how the file is created. The user u…
Can you drag and drop videos onto your desktop to save?
Can you upload videos anywhere that accepts an image?
Can you loop and make sure it always plays on a webpage?
If no, I'm not using video. No one gives a crap about your technical specs. Videos suck as a user interface.
I already said that before and I'll do it again: it won't work until we make videos act like gifs, which act like images. The video per se won't loop if I save it in my computer or phone. I can't drag and drop, right click, long tap. To have anything replacing gif you need THE EXACT SAME BEHAVIOUR, EVERYWHERE. It doesn't matter for the consumer whose fault it is: encoding, the app, how the file is created. The user u…
I'm glad someone else thinks like this, the other devs on my team get so caught up on the little things in the application we are building and all this little crap the user won't care about if it doesn't work as they expect. I end up being the only person saying "If I was the user, I'd expect this. And if I was doing this, I expect this behavior". Instead, they act as if the user has a PhD in cs, and instead, the use…
Not sure why he put this at the end: > One final note: according to Wilhite, GIF is pronounced with a soft “G,” like “jif.” That settles the never-ending debate for me. Now all he's done is make 1/2 of the population immediately discount everything else he said, regardless of its merit.
I already said that before and I'll do it again: it won't work until we make videos act like gifs, which act like images. The video per se won't loop if I save it in my computer or phone. I can't drag and drop, right click, long tap. To have anything replacing gif you need THE EXACT SAME BEHAVIOUR, EVERYWHERE. It doesn't matter for the consumer whose fault it is: encoding, the app, how the file is created. The user u…
isn't what gifv is?
Can you embed video in email and have it play by default? Can you drag and drop videos onto your desktop to save? Can you upload videos anywhere that accepts an image? Can you loop and make sure it always plays on a webpage? If no, I'm not using video. No one gives a crap about your technical specs. Videos suck as a user interface.
- Must load entirely before playing (whereas video formats can load as they play)
- Don’t show any progress/buffering icon while they load, so it just looks like the page has frozen
- Lack the ability to skip/scrub through the video (if I miss a part, now I have to wait the entire thing to loop)
- Don’t have audio
Actually, these aren’t really issues for short gifs (<5 seconds). But long videos which have been converted into gifs are quite common.
Hold the mic drop. Those that claim videos are superior over GIF's will never understand. The only benefit that a video tag has over a gif is a smaller file size. Animation's and meme's, cinimigraphics and simulations are more than simply video. How about for all other animated graphics? And file size is increasingly becoming less and less of a factor at all. (disclosure: I built https://gif.com.ai )
Not sure why he put this at the end: > One final note: according to Wilhite, GIF is pronounced with a soft “G,” like “jif.” That settles the never-ending debate for me. Now all he's done is make 1/2 of the population immediately discount everything else he said, regardless of its merit.
Author here. I added the "for me" to try to convey that it's a personal choice. I don't care what pronunciation others use. In this case, it doesn't bother me if someone chooses to discount what I wrote just because of that statement. That's on them. I know it doesn't add much to the post. I just really liked the video of him accepting the Webby award. It was nice to see the person behind the technology, and I like l…
Whatever way you pronounce it, the important thing is to realize that videos have advantages over gifs that you should always keep in mind - which came through loud and clear.
Hold the mic drop. Those that claim videos are superior over GIF's will never understand. The only benefit that a video tag has over a gif is a smaller file size. Animation's and meme's, cinimigraphics and simulations are more than simply video. How about for all other animated graphics? And file size is increasingly becoming less and less of a factor at all. (disclosure: I built https://gif.com.ai )
That site completely freezes when opened in Firefox. I can't even select it if I opened it with a middle click, and I need to right click on it and and select close tab to kill it. (Firefox 76.0.1 (64-bit), Windows 10)