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GIFs are so stupidly easy to use and distribute that I sometimes can’t wrap my head around how convenient the format is. A while ago, I tried to be a good nerd
by pessimism 11y ago
GIFs are so stupidly easy to use and distribute that I sometimes can’t wrap my head around how convenient the format is.
A while ago, I tried to be a good nerd and convert some GIFs to HTML5 video, and I crashed and burned pretty hard: https://ndarville.com/asides/webvideo/ https://ndarville.com/asides/webvideo/.
I gained a new appreciation of GIFs that day.
That said, it would be great if we got a compromise where browsers can load only the first frame of the GIF and play the reminder on click or touch to save all the loading and data—on both sides, really.
- pimlottc 11y agoIn the linked page, FOIT = "Flash of invisible text", when the user briefly sees empty space while the webfont is loading. I had to look that up. https://css-tricks.com/fout-foit-foft/ https://css-tricks.com/fout-foit-foft/
- pessimism 11y agoOh yeah, that’s just quoted text from the original article, which deals with the phenomenon: https://ndarville.com/blog/2015/12/04/web-fonts/ https://ndarville.com/blog/2015/12/04/web-fonts/. It’s not directly relevant to the aforementioned article. :)
- arthurfm 11y ago> That said, it would be great if we got a compromise Wouldn't a better compromise be to support MP4/WebM videos in the IMG tag? Videos embedded this way could play without audio by default (just like GIFs).