Animated SVG vs. GIF
Ideally animated SVG should be self-contained as an image format, and easily injected into an existing page, but it's not. It needs dependencies to animate, either CSS (which is a bit fiddly) or a javascript lib.<p>GIF is easily injectable, easy to update, which allows a nice, quick iterative update cycle. It's also compatible across the board and pretty future-proof at the moment.<p>SVG animations could work better by containing the code within the SVG file itself. Not sure how compatible this would be, but something to look into.
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