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A comment on Vim GIFs.

Re:Vim GIFs by ue_ on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @02:57PM (#12123944)
The performance could be increased (i.e less choppy) and filesizes could be decreased (i.e taking up less transfer of data for the same quality) by filming webm or similar rather than gif.

The only disadvantage visible is Internet Explorer users who don't have the plugin installed, in which case you could provide a gif fallback.

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Re:Vim GIFs by cridenour on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @04:58PM (#12124840)
But then they would need a new domain.
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Re:Vim GIFs by iBzOtaku on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @11:19PM (#12134405)
Not really. gfycat does both gifs and webm.
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Re:Vim GIFs by vinchuco on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @12:19AM (#12126867)
It would also be more efficient to be able to tell when the gif started
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Re:Vim GIFs by ataylor32 on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @03:23PM (#12124134)
Changing the desktop background to a solid color would help too.
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Re:Vim GIFs by XaspR8d on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @03:47PM (#12124310)
Doesn't GIF's difference encoding mostly make the background a constant cost?
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Re:Vim GIFs by Zikes on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @03:58PM (#12124383)
It would make the initial frame smaller, but the difference on following frames should be negligible yes.
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Re:Vim GIFs by chungy on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @10:03PM (#12126375)
MS Edge supports WebM, and that's basically the current version of Internet Explorer.
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