top | item 29396445 (no title) SimeVidas | 4 years ago I’m curious, would you disable GIF autoplay if the browser’s settings offered it? discuss order hn newest MrStonedOne|4 years ago No.Like, i get that they are the same in effect, but I still believe in the semantics different between a moving picture, and a audio-track-less video.A gif can never have audio.A img tag can never have audio.mp4s, m4as, webm, embeds tags, video tags, etc, can either have or not have audio, its a surprise.Because they are videos, not moving/animated pictures.Anywho, apng is a real standard now, so one can just use that instead of gifs. Eelongate|4 years ago Yes. The performance of playing gifs is awful. Even better if gif autoplaying could be gated by the dimension of the gif. Under 100x100? That's fine, autoplay it. But some nutjob's 1000x1000 gif? Please spare me. taftster|4 years ago Yes please.
MrStonedOne|4 years ago No.Like, i get that they are the same in effect, but I still believe in the semantics different between a moving picture, and a audio-track-less video.A gif can never have audio.A img tag can never have audio.mp4s, m4as, webm, embeds tags, video tags, etc, can either have or not have audio, its a surprise.Because they are videos, not moving/animated pictures.Anywho, apng is a real standard now, so one can just use that instead of gifs.
Eelongate|4 years ago Yes. The performance of playing gifs is awful. Even better if gif autoplaying could be gated by the dimension of the gif. Under 100x100? That's fine, autoplay it. But some nutjob's 1000x1000 gif? Please spare me.
MrStonedOne|4 years ago
Like, i get that they are the same in effect, but I still believe in the semantics different between a moving picture, and a audio-track-less video.
A gif can never have audio.
A img tag can never have audio.
mp4s, m4as, webm, embeds tags, video tags, etc, can either have or not have audio, its a surprise.
Because they are videos, not moving/animated pictures.
Anywho, apng is a real standard now, so one can just use that instead of gifs.
Eelongate|4 years ago
taftster|4 years ago