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I don't follow your comment, but I should have been more explicit:

gif is a waste of bandwidth compared to a soundless webm

Gifs work everywhere. They're heavy, but support is pretty much guaranteed. That's still not the case for webm.

If you're OK with screwing over Safari/IE users, you'll have pretty good support. You could engineer a browser-based fallback to gif, but honestly I wouldn't bother.

I'd imagine we can create an impetus to support it if we actually used it more

...and webm is a waste of CPU and memory compared to gif :-)

There are always tradeoffs.

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