<story><title>Serve Videos Instead of GIFs</title><url>https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/serve-videos-instead-of-gifs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>egfx</author><text>Hold the mic drop. Those that claim videos are superior over GIF&amp;#x27;s will never understand. The only benefit that a video tag has over a gif is a smaller file size. Animation&amp;#x27;s and meme&amp;#x27;s, cinimigraphics and simulations are more than simply video. How about for all other animated graphics? And file size is increasingly becoming less and less of a factor at all. (disclosure: I built &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gif.com.ai&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gif.com.ai&lt;/a&gt;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ken</author><text>Not just smaller file size.  &lt;i&gt;Drastically&lt;/i&gt; smaller file size.  I&amp;#x27;ve never been on a network so fast that I couldn&amp;#x27;t appreciate a 97% savings in bandwidth usage.&lt;p&gt;A sufficiently large quantitative change becomes a qualitative one.  This is one of those times.</text></comment>
<story><title>Serve Videos Instead of GIFs</title><url>https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/serve-videos-instead-of-gifs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>egfx</author><text>Hold the mic drop. Those that claim videos are superior over GIF&amp;#x27;s will never understand. The only benefit that a video tag has over a gif is a smaller file size. Animation&amp;#x27;s and meme&amp;#x27;s, cinimigraphics and simulations are more than simply video. How about for all other animated graphics? And file size is increasingly becoming less and less of a factor at all. (disclosure: I built &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gif.com.ai&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gif.com.ai&lt;/a&gt;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>As someone who frequently works from a hotspot, where 1GB of data costs $5 - $10 per GB (depending if I load up when it is on sale), smaller file size saves me money, and pages load faster.</text></comment>