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I think at some point, we do. People like this format. GIF, gyfcat, Vine, and now this. Instagram and WebM on 4chan also have things keyed to this behavior. Bu
by themagician 12y ago
I think at some point, we do.
People like this format. GIF, gyfcat, Vine, and now this. Instagram and WebM on 4chan also have things keyed to this behavior. But the thing that GIF has on all of them is that it works everywhere. It plays in a browser, in an email, on the desktop, in an MMS message, etc..
We need a full stop replacement for the GIF that uses a modern encoder.
- cbd1984 12y ago> We need a full stop replacement for the GIF that uses a modern encoder. Keeping in mind that one of the big advantages of GIF is NO AUDIO. It's just deeply anti-social to play audio in some contexts, and a file format which enforces that is a very good thing.
- nieve 12y agoI agree completely, though I'd add that it's also unpleasant. There's a reason some browser and browser extensions try to help track down which tabs are producing audio. Perhaps GIFV or equivalent should be defined as either requiring the browser not to play audio or as making audio optional, but required to default to off at start of play. The latter would require a minimal transport control, but I could live with a transparent mouseover-only volume button. There's no technical reason that a GIF successor must include or play audio. For that matter it would make a greasemonkey script or perhaps extension that forced sound off for regular mp4 much easier to write in this case.