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Re:Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF by ramses0 on Monday December 04, 2017 @04:01PM (#15847451)
Streaming with gif/jpg has been around since at least 2004[1] and doing some code spelunking mjpeg-tools was installable as a package since 2001[2].

[1]: https://www.linux.com/news/mjpeg-tools [2]: https://sourceforge.net/p/mjpeg/Code/483/

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Re:Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF by pedrocr on Monday December 04, 2017 @07:09PM (#15848749)
It doesn't have much to do with the gif/jpg formats though, it works with anything. It's just a multipart HTTP response that keeps sending entire new files to replace the previous one. It's not even a jpeg/gif encoding of the differences between frames which would be much more efficient.
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