State of the Web: Animated GIFs
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Every few months, I like to take a deep dive into the HTTP Archive to understand how the web is using various technologies. In 2018, I wrote about Images, video and Base64 encoding. In today’s post, I want to take a look at how the web is using Animated GIFs. (and thats a hard G in #gif, BTW).In this post, I’ll walk through some of the inefficiencies of aGIFs (TL;DR: they are big and use lots of CPU), and then a look at how GIFs are being used on the mobile web (from the HTTP Archive).Who Doesn’t Love an Animated GIF?Well, if we go way back into ancient computer history (1990) and we read the GIF specifications, we find this gem:“The Graphics Interchange Format is not intended as a platform for animation, even though it can be done in a limited way.”Well…that was unexpected. But, doesn’t (...)
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