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Re:iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using J... by johnx123-up on Monday September 17, 2012 @03:50AM (#4531632)
Anybody knows, why can't we use GIF instead?
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Re:iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using J... by codeka on Monday September 17, 2012 @04:46AM (#4531725)
You probably could, but given that GIF files are limited to a 256-colour palette, it would probably look pretty horrible. Especially for such a large image.
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Re:iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using J... by eliaskg on Monday September 17, 2012 @08:02AM (#4532122)
Also you would end up having varying frame rates in different browsers.
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