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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by robin_reala on Monday March 16, 2015 @04:52PM (#9214303)
Marc Adreessen came up with <img>[1], not TimBL.

[1] http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.ht...

Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by espadrine on Monday March 16, 2015 @05:33PM (#9214546)
Besides, it's easy today to frown upon the choices made at a time where common image formats included XBM, a plain text subset of C!

One day, people will be sad that we didn't anticipate 3d models in <img>. It makes no sense to add support with the current state of technology.