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The article compares a single img tag with a single gif src url to a video tag with 2 child nodes linking to 2 separate files encoded with 2 different ways, as
by RobLach 6y ago
The article compares a single img tag with a single gif src url to a video tag with 2 child nodes linking to 2 separate files encoded with 2 different ways, as mp4 and webm.
That’s already more than 2x as much work to post an animated image, not to mention limited support for transparency and needing to pay some extra attention for seamless looping.
Video on the web needs to mature quite a bit more.
- dylan604 6y agotsk tsk. it's not like someone is going to need to write all of that HTML. some user will be doing this with twitter/IM/FB/etc where some dev will have implemented a node library that will have some method call to do this for you. it's not like anybody cares what the automated HTML in the background looks like.
- RobLach 6y agoYes, exactly. All that needs to be built still. I can't just copy and paste a video into my messenger app for instance, which I have been able to do with gifs for ages.
- robbrown451 6y agoTrue but the story is posted at HN, and there is a good chance one of your messenger app's devs or designers is reading it and saying "maybe we should add that bit of code".