[ale] OT: Animated GIF's are back/rant

[Rev. Johnny Healey]

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.

-Johnny


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 ?
>
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