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▲ porphyra 3 days ago

To be fair, terminal output is one of the few things where GIF's LZW compression and limited color palettes shine at.

▲e12e 3 days ago | parent [-]

Not as much as https://asciinema.org/ - when you can use that...

▲porphyra 3 days ago | parent [-]

True, but embedding a gif is way easier than using a javascript thing which might not be allowed in most places.

▲dheera 3 days ago | parent [-]

Browsers just need to support <img src="foo.mp4" style="width:256px;"> already.

It should behave exactly like a GIF, loop by default, and be usable for emojis and everything.

There is absolutely ZERO reason we should be stuck to 256 colors for things like cat videos used as chat stickers. We have had 24-bit displays for ages.

▲porphyra 3 days ago | parent [-]

Animated webp has pretty good browser support by now and Discord uses it by default to serve animated emojis and stickers.

However, many image hosting tools still don't let you upload webp.

[1] https://caniuse.com/webp