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The question you should be asking is 'why I still see animated gifs in 2020?'
by secondcoming 6y ago
The question you should be asking is 'why I still see animated gifs in 2020?'
- Someone 6y agoDo you? I thought many ‘animated GIFs’ aren’t GIF files anymore. Twitter, for example, serves MP4 files (https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/19/gasp-twitter-gifs-arent-actually-gifs https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/19/gasp-twitter-gifs-arent-ac...)
- ourcat 6y agoAs well as the compression, I think this also had a lot to do with native mobile app support, where MPEG4 was far easier to deal with than animated GIFs.