The intended use case is not long-form video, but micro-form, muted, looping video – just like animated Gifs. Market research has shown that users have higher engagement with, and generally prefer both micro-form video ( tags. Gifs have many advantages: they are requested immediately by the browser preloader, they play and loop automatically, and they are silent! Implicitly they are also shorter. My daughter loves them – but she doesn’t understand why her battery is always dead. And we’re spending all of those resources on something that doesn’t even look very good – the GIF 256 color limitation often makes GIF files look terrible (although there are some cool workarounds).

Typically Gifs are 12x larger files than H.264 videos, and take 2x the energy to load and display in a browser. They are HUGE in size, impact cellular data bills, require more CPU and memory, cause repaints, and are battery killers. Animated Gifs are terrible for web performance.

All of this awesomeness, however, comes at a cost. The Graphics Interchange Format is not intended as a platform for animation, even though it can be done in a limited way.īut they have become an awesome tool for cinemagraphs, memes, and creative expression.

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