Hacker News Reader

But you have to acknowledge the psychological expectations are not the same with the two formats.

A GIF? Looping video, maybe 3 seconds long.

A silent video? Hours and hours.

But you can already do that. AVIF animations are regular AV1 videos. There is zero end user visible difference between what the above user is proposing and what AVIF does. Allowing webm in img tags would be identical.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com