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>WebKit in Safari now supports loading H.264 encoded MP4 video with an HTML tag.

I was confused by this sentence, but it actually says "HTML <IMG> tag" (the "<IMG>" part of the text is unescaped, and does not render). Meaning you can use <img src="video.mp4">

"But we already have <video> and animated webP and..." is addresed in depth in the linked article: https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2017/animated-gif-without-th...

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I was thinking about this the other day, in the best case scenario, we are only 5 years away from a patent free H.264 codec. And we finally have something to truly replace GIF.

I wonder what other things we could do to H.264 to further improve the standard while aiming to be patents free within a foreseeable time frame. And act As the baseline of the web to move forward.

Thanks for posting this. I highly recommend people read the linked article - interesting discussion into how browser's work in general.

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