Browsers only supported animated gif, not any other animated format

miladyincontrol 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What do you mean? Most browsers support animated jpeg xl, avif, webp and apng just fine.

Perhaps the clue is in the past tense "supported". Nowadays browsers support many formats, but in the "olden days" gif was the only way to get animations in browsers without plugins like Macromedia Flash...

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out_of_protocol an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

also, don't forget - actual video format is better for animated stuff. Current default approach is .webm which is standardized .mkv container + vp9 (or av1) video + opus audio (usually no audio to as a feature parity to gif). IMO animated picture formats like .avifs are very backwards and don't add much

	▲	jaffathecake an hour ago \| parent [-]
		One advantage to animated AVIF is that it supports an alpha channel, which AV1 doesn't. But I guess that just points to how short-sighted it was for AV1 to omit alpha channel support.