The Long, Remarkable History of the GIF
In the article Battilana is quoted as saying: &quot;Even browsers today don&#x27;t have a good alternative to GIF unless you want a very sophisticated and still patent-covered video like MPEG-2 or MPEG-4.&quot;<p>But we have WebM, works on Chrome, Firefox, Opera and on IE with components <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.webmproject.org&#x2F;ie&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.webmproject.org&#x2F;ie&#x2F;</a> - is that not good enough?<p>No mention of the Animated extention to PNG, which Firefox, Safari and Opera do support. Chrome has an add-on for it but I don&#x27;t know about IE. You wonder if the image is smaller when it&#x27;s a silent video or when it&#x27;s a APNG, probably it&#x27;s the same with animated GIF, the movie  format is more efficient then the animated image format.<p>Perhaps someone can make a proxy plugin that converts all animated gifs on the fly to webm and all gifs to png. You never have to see these GIFs again, another SaaS subscription model