>57 requests, 28,189.09 KB I don't believe any new animated gifs should be made, except for animations such as pixel art. They are inferior in every way to html video. The success of webm on sites like 4chan are evidence that gifs offer no advantage in terms of portability, ease of sharing, or features.
GIF represents a particular set of forced compromises: no audio, no controls, reasonably short, right-click-save-as available. The inefficiency of the file format also means people keep them dimensionally small. HTML5 video doesn't have those constraints, and there isn't a separate type of "thing" which is an unobtrusive video. This isn't about the codec, but guaranteeing a way of presentation. Maybe if videos could…
"but you could disable video so you don't have issues regarding videos or some similar strawman"
Well, that would be a bit extreme, and if we want to take that angle, sure, but then I should be allowed to take the angle of "if it can be disabled by default, then instead it could be muted and paused by default"