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Yes, it would be immense. Many gifs have been used for user interface elements and such a change would break that completely.

• paulryanrogers 5y ago
  I'm not suggesting some modest, >1KB spinners should be gated like this. Rather that renderers / apps would put a pause on downloading and processing very large (say 1MB+) or very long animations (100+ frames).
  • oauea 5y ago
    I think you are underestimating gif sizes if you think a 1MB gif is large.
    • burnished 5y ago
      but would your example, crucial, gif ui elements be that large? that seems odd