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If your webmaster wants to use a 32MB gif because he can't be bothered to figure out how to embed an mp4, fire him on the spot. Serving up 32MB of gif to every
by catalogia 7y ago
If your webmaster wants to use a 32MB gif because he can't be bothered to figure out how to embed an mp4, fire him on the spot. Serving up 32MB of gif to every user who visits the page because you can't figure out the <video> tag is inexcusable. This is very far from rocket science.
- wilg 7y agoSigh.
- catalogia 7y agoSigh all you want, just don't use gifs. It's an obsolete format with no remaining niche. Your first argument for the use of gifs focused on the experience of users seeing an animation "they wanted to show an animation and most people can load it." If the experience of the users is your concern (and it should be), you should feel obliged to never use a gif for something like this because the users will have an objectively superior experience with mp4's in every respect. If instead you're screwing the users just to save the webmaster some minor hassle, you should sack the webmaster.
- wilg 7y agoI'm sighing at how much you're overblowing the issue. I agree MP4 is better.