> I've been dealing with weather radar images lately, and they're all terrible animated gifs actually, weather radar is an ideal use-case for GIFs. they have l

> I've been dealing with weather radar images lately, and they're all terrible animated gifs actually, weather radar is an ideal use-case for GIFs. they have limited colors, only a few dozen frames which may need to be delayed for a few hundred ms. you should really try compressing the gifs using something like gifsicle [1], you'll be astounded by the resulting size (use lzw compression), quality and performance (use a global color palette). it will surpass any video you can make. what GIFs are terrible at is photographs and video. for the majority of graphics and animations they're awesome sauce. [1] http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/ http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/