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Would you rather websites keep using animated GIFs instead? Because I think this is why GIFs are still in active use despite being a terrible format in terms of
by Wowfunhappy 4y ago
Would you rather websites keep using animated GIFs instead? Because I think this is why GIFs are still in active use despite being a terrible format in terms of compression/bandwidth: browsers impose all of these limitations on video, which don't apply to GIFs because they're images.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoI want no auto-play video regardless of format. Am I really in the minority?
- tanelpoder 4y agoYup, this baffles me too. The counterarguments seem to be that "you're gonna see autoplaying content anyway and this just makes the advertisers life harder". I think Google added an option to disable all/most autoplaying content in Chrome a couple of years ago. But they quickly backtracked and removed that flag, claiming that it breaks in-browser games or something like that. It's a pretty weak reason for me, I don't care about in-browser games, I just want to read a news article without some irrelevant video popup distracting me, plus blasting audio.
- amalcon 4y agoNothing requires a browser to auto-play animated GIFs.
- Dylan16807 4y agoIf you back that off it breaks tons of sites and the really annoying ones move to a hundred jpegs. And trying to stop that is not going to be easy.
- dylan604 4y agojust don't visit those websites that perform user hostile shenanigans like that.
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoNo, but animated GIFs have been standard in browsers for so long that I think you'd end up breaking lots of things. Loading spinners, for example, are often GIFs. Maybe you'd prefer if those were static, but suspect many users would think a website and/or their browser was broken if they didn't move.
- ladzoppelin 4y agoIn Firefox "image.animation_mode: once", fixes the issue. (Unless I am miss-understanding the issue you are talking about)
- steponlego 4y agoYou can pause animated .gifs, Opera had this feature over twenty years ago.