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Gifs (and videos that people call gifs) wouldn’t be what they are today if it weren’t for their ease of copying/saving and pasting/uploading to somewhere else,
by joemi 6y ago
Gifs (and videos that people call gifs) wouldn’t be what they are today if it weren’t for their ease of copying/saving and pasting/uploading to somewhere else, which you could similarly call an application feature. So this application issue with video (as implemented in this article) is almost certainly what will stop gifs from being replaced.
- sp332 6y agoThis only worked properly in Firefox since 2016 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664717 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664717 so that's probably not it.
- guerrilla 6y agoI'm pretty sure I was able to right-click save gifs all the way back to Netscape...
- sp332 6y agoYou can also right-click save the videos in the article right now. What I meant was copy and pasting GIFs.
- joemi 6y agoExcept it is... The first thing I did when I read the article on my phone was try to save the videos, copy the videos, or copy the links for the videos in the article. I was unable to do any of those actions. I firmly believe that for it to overtake the gif, doing those actions with video on popular phones needs to be as easy (if not easier) than with gifs.
- ReactiveJelly 6y agoBut it's being done above the format level entirely. Every browser that can decode video has a "Copy Video URL" context menu item. It's just that the websites hide it to discourage hotlinking
- anewvillager 6y agobut the thing is, i want to copy the video itself not copy the url, paste in a terminal for curl or wget to download it, then copy the video..
- joemi 6y agoI don't think that's necessarily true for mobile browsers, and that's a big and important-to-gif-perpetuation demographic.
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