[ale] OT: Animated GIF's are back/rant

Rev. Johnny Healey rev.null at gmail.com
Wed Aug 14 17:28:04 EDT 2013


It's because video codec patents, drm issues, and flash have produced an
ecosystem where it is easier to upload an animated gif that will display in
most browsers than to upload a video file that will display in at least
half of the browsers.

-Johnny


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

> That many years of progressive development of video compressing techniques
> and people continue to post animated GIF's in size 2-6 MB, video that
> normally would take about 100-200 KB. What a waste! And what with the whole
> trend ?
>
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