<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 style>-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="mailto: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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