Why are they using GIF for video, instead of a proper video file in the video tag?
<div id="something-to-complain-about"Personally I see no point in using GIFs, unless on a site which allows embedding images, but not videos. On a site which you control, video tag works just fine.
- Deal with cross browser inconsistencies with html5 video.
- Create a poster image for the video
- Save the video format in mp4, ogg, webm
- Save out and build flash alternative for older browsers
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- Realize that a gif probably would have been the best option for this post.
- ignore older browsers (today practically all browsers support the video tag, caring about older browsers in this context is like caring about IE6, i.e. it's bad).
- stick with a compromise solution (H.264, yeah that's sad, but until Daala will come this mess will remain, but now Firefox already supports H.264 easily, so it's not a problem anymore). If the space allows it, I wouldn't mind encoding in both WebM and MP4, just for the sake of supporting free formats.