I call bullshit on that. The fact is that no modern browser supports disabling animated GIFs. Therefore, it is easy to "force" someone to watch the "video" you think everyone should be watching; even if the viewer just happens to scroll by and see a few frames before he keeps scrolling. No one creating and posting these thing could give less of a damn about what codecs and patents are in play. If the actual videos would always, guaranteed, play immediately upon load, then they would post the video.<span></span><br>
<br>On Wednesday, August 14, 2013, Rev. Johnny Healey wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">It's because video codec patents, drm issues, and flash have produced an ecosystem where it is easier to upload an animated gif that will display in most browsers than to upload a video file that will display in at least half of the browsers.<div>
<br></div><div>-Johnny</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Boris Borisov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'bugyatl@gmail.com');" target="_blank">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">That many years of progressive development of video compressing techniques and people continue to post animated GIF's in size 2-6 MB, video that normally would take about 100-200 KB. What a waste! And what with the whole trend ?<br>
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