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Re:Show HN: Build a JS-only interactive product walk-through... by enraged_camel on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @01:11PM (#22368234)
Problem with animated gifs is that they are not very efficient in terms of bandwidth, especially if you need them to show UI interactions (which means you need a high frame rate).
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Re:Show HN: Build a JS-only interactive product walk-through... by satvikpendem on Thursday February 20, 2020 @11:21AM (#22376149)
The word "gif" now means both the format GIF, and also any generic short, looping video on the Internet. As a result, you can just use a webm or other format, as Gfycat does, since it's highly compressible and no viewer actually cares about the underlying format, only the content.
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