[bastijn]

This was my thought exactly. Also thought seeing 6 lines being typed was too much, got the feeling I wanted to close the page. Animation went too slow and didnt really add anything anymore at that point. The power of gif-based samples is for the range 1-3 sec gifs I'd say.

[bigblind]

What this can provide over gifs, is accessibility, although I haven't checked it with a screen reader.