A Polymer element for flexible GIF playback
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A Polymer element for flexible GIF playback
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Re: A Polymer element for flexible GIF playback
#2Alternatively, ditch GIFs entirely and use bandwidth-friendly and feature-friendly HTML5 video.
Re: A Polymer element for flexible GIF playback
#3This is absurdly cool.
Re: A Polymer element for flexible GIF playback
#4Alternatively, ditch GIFs entirely and use bandwidth-friendly and feature-friendly HTML5 video.
Nah man GIFs are my spirit animal
Re: A Polymer element for flexible GIF playback
#5Glen gave an incredible presentation at Mountain West JS about his adventures doing cool things with gifs. He ended up with bpm syncing between gifs and music. You should definitely check out the talk when the videos get posted on Confreaks.
Re: A Polymer element for flexible GIF playback
#6Alternatively, ditch GIFs entirely and use bandwidth-friendly and feature-friendly HTML5 video.
Can you even autoplay HTML5 video on a page in, say, the platform I'm posting from, iOS 7?
Re: A Polymer element for flexible GIF playback
#7Alternatively, ditch GIFs entirely and use bandwidth-friendly and feature-friendly HTML5 video.
Not gonna happen until html5 can be set up to autoplay on mobile, and can be copy-pasted into your messaging app and will autoplay there too. I suspect there are other requirements, but much as I love the idea of moving away from gifs (for bandwidth at LEAST) there are a set of things that only gifs can do.
Side note: autoplaying html5 would be a massive annoyance, because html5 video can have audio.
Re: A Polymer element for flexible GIF playback
#8Alternatively, ditch GIFs entirely and use bandwidth-friendly and feature-friendly HTML5 video.
Can you even autoplay HTML5 video on a page in, say, the platform I'm posting from, iOS 7?
Nope, has to be triggered by a user action (like a tap), and can only play full screen. Also, if you loop a video, the control bars flash up then fade away each time it loops.
Re: A Polymer element for flexible GIF playback
#9Alternatively, ditch GIFs entirely and use bandwidth-friendly and feature-friendly HTML5 video.
Can you even autoplay HTML5 video on a page in, say, the platform I'm posting from, iOS 7?
No.
And those with bandwidth caps are doubly grateful for that. Once for not being opted into wasting bandwidth, and again for the smaller file size if they choose to use it.
Re: A Polymer element for flexible GIF playback
#10is there a reason why these are controlled via stylesheets and not turning on/off the images (performance?)? also what happens if i have a gif with more than 100 frames?