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If videos looped seamlessly I'd happily serve videos. Sadly, they do not.
by percentcer 6y ago
If videos looped seamlessly I'd happily serve videos. Sadly, they do not.
- manigandham 6y agoThey can, and they do. This article shows you an example at the end. What's the issue?
- FalconSensei 6y agotried to drag and drop and didn't work. Also, if I save to share later, it's not going to work, and I would need to do the same things the author did to make it work. It's not guaranteed that it will work properly (with auto loop) everywhere. And if you consider browsers/extensions might block auto-playing videos in the future... gif just works. Drag and drop anywhere, any browser, any app, and it works. (Ok, almost anywhere, but still way more accepted than video).
- egfx 6y agoSadly it would be great if it were true but the finer details are that you cannot today drag and drop a gif from a website into another one or copy it to your clipboard and paste it elsewhere on the web. Even though it’s in the W3C clipboard specs https://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/#reading-from-clipboard https://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/#reading-from-clipboard, Chrome doesn’t support it. I tried to implement this but it will only show one frame and convert it into a static image and drop the transparent pixels. You can save it directly to your computer though.
- manigandham 6y agoVideo as a file usually works, it's the presentation/player part that is entirely dependent on whatever application and OS you're using to view it. Most messaging apps now support video pretty easily so there's some progress being made.
- FalconSensei 6y agoThey support video, but, acting as an image?
- recrof 6y agodid you know that there is loop attribute in video tag?
- drran 6y agoVideo tag ≠ video file