NOTE: I edited this description after my initial post so sorry if that confuses anyone. If it loses quality over time, it's not a replacement for GIF. Really you can test this by creating a WebM file, editing it, and then compressing it again. APNG files that have substantially more colors will actually be larger than their GIF counterparts because, again, they're a series of images, and all that extra graphics data can only get compressed so far before it gives up. The file size for the same quality video is enormous because there's no tricks to save space.ĪPNG tries to find something in the middle - compress individual separate images as much as possible and look for commonality between different frames (some compression tools do this, some don't). GIF files are so substantially larger because (most of them) behave as 100 (or whatever) individual images and can be played without issue by the same computer your parents ran in 1997.
Occasionally you can see this fail on videos where the camera moves horizontally across a visual obscured by bars. There's an enormous amount of math that lets them use various intelligent patterns and visual tricks. Modern video (including WebM) functions as a series of objects rather than a series of sequential images. Animations are drawn by hand on a multiple sheets and put together and finally ends up recorded as a Video. Just drag & drop it onto the page, or click the blue button to choose from a folder on your device (you can also add files from Dropbox, or even straight from a YouTube URL). Īnimated GIF and WebM Video format is very similar thing. WebM can be easily done to react the same on any Webpage. Modern browsers like chrome has no control left over the gif animation, as I checked that right now.Īnd by the way, all the GIPHY's gifs are nothing more than short self repeating videos. Video formats are given a player interface by default, while GIF's are only rendered without any additional control except for well known "stop repeating this GIF" function, that by the way were only introduced in older browsers. The only difference is that GIF are interpreted differently on the web browsers, than any kind of video format.
Animation is an art of drawing sketches of object and then showing them in a series of frames so that it looks like a moving and living thing to us while a video is a recording of either still or moving objects.Īnimated GIF and WebM Video format is very similar thing.Īnimations are drawn by hand on a multiple sheets and put together and finally ends up recorded as a Video.