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Re:Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG by ecnahc515 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @10:41PM (#13873368)
All true, but those aren't necessarily problems with the concept of a gif, and could be fixed with another format, that isn't necessarily a full on video.

I think the concept of gif's is fairly great, but the actual format itself has tons of issues.

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Re:Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG by pvg on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @12:38AM (#13873852)
It seems to be covered adequately by formats supported by current browsers. Try pasting a link to a gif in Facebook. Facebook will convert it to an mp4 and put a big 'GIF' button on top of it. This doesn't seem to bother or be noticed by (statistically) anybody.
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