Browser Wars
Browser Wars
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Youtube (or any video) will never replace the animated gif.
The animated gif stays around because it offers an experience that can't seem to be matched by video.
What year is it that we need to accept that a browser can't display a few images?
- lol experience? like what?CygnusZero4
- The nature of the animated gif (silent, looping, can't skip to different time, reduced frame rate & bit depth) often ends up funnier, cuter, or more clever than a video.nb
- ... funnier, cuter, or more clever than a video. If video could imitate the gif perfectly, the gif would naturally fade away. It hasn't.nb
- hasn't.nb
- youtube has ads, and that is an experience I hatemonospaced
- you can block adds with an extension. problem solved. what's the next question?Miguex
- oh yeah, theres a place for both, gufs and video because clearly they are not the same thing.Miguex
- I can stop ads from playing before the video starts? I did not know that.monospaced
- Yes, but even the best adblockers occasionally let some ads through. Ads aside, videos are not gifs!nb