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A large proportion of browsers won't auto-play video, but will auto-play GIFs, so that rules out many uses. Also, I'd bet that video tags eat memory. A web pag
by joosters 12y ago
A large proportion of browsers won't auto-play video, but will auto-play GIFs, so that rules out many uses.
Also, I'd bet that video tags eat memory. A web page with ten animated GIFs might make the user puke, but a web page with ten auto-play videos will likely make the web browser puke :)
- scrollaway 12y ago> I'd bet No, you're wrong. You have this preconception that videos are obligatorily 300 megabytes or something. There's virtually no reason for in-hardware decoding of a smaller file to make the browser struggle more than with gifs, which are much less optimized and never in-hardware.