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This is really cool. However I'm going to bring you the Traditional HN Nitpick: it's very odd to see Google use these horribly over-compressed gifs over proper
by simias 6y ago
This is really cool. However I'm going to bring you the Traditional HN Nitpick: it's very odd to see Google use these horribly over-compressed gifs over proper videos: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/original_images/Draping.gif https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ori...
- judge2020 6y agoYa, it seems like someone really wanted a gif and threw it in a free video -> gif converter. Gifs can have over 256 colors (with some tricks) or they could have used `video autoplay loop muted` and achieved the same effect.
- zamadatix 6y agoI don't think the surprise is they made a bad gif as much as they used gif at all considering this is the company that literally made vp9 and webm for this exact use case.