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Re:Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter by cbhl on Sunday August 17, 2014 @02:48AM (#8188808)
I'd love to know your thoughts on using WebP (image format that supports animation) versus WebM (video format) for GIFs.

Do you think it's worthwhile? If not, why?

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Re:Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter by jdiez17 on Sunday August 17, 2014 @08:35AM (#8189263)
We haven't looked much into WebP as an animation container. And since it's only supported by Chrome (and will likely remain that way) we are not currently considering it. WebM and MP4 both have pretty good codecs for video; definitely a lot better than GIFs, that's for sure.
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