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by alterom 501 days ago
> From my understanding, the easiest way is to use the <video> tag with mp4.

The easiest way for everyone involved is... using GIFs as GIFs.

The 19% in savings (when converting to lossless WebP) aren't worth it. Not even 60%, when you consider what you lose in usability.

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I stumbled over that 19% in the article. Maybe in practice you wouldn't want to convert a GIF to lossless webp, but original video to lossy webp? And then the lossy webp would be slighly smaller than the GIF with far superior quality?