[chrismorgan]

I really dislike situations like this where the inferior becomes a name for the category, because it encourages people to keep using the inferior, often because that’s all they hear of and so all they know. “RSS” for feeds is a similar, though somewhat less bad, case (Atom is unequivocally superior, but in ways that seldom make a difference for most consumers for most content).

(Admittedly, actual video codecs are more a minefield, as is seen here in the video not playing in most environments due to the use of full 4:4:4 chroma, whereas GIF is simple and stupid enough that it’s consistent.)