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B64 images animated with SVG.

JPEG, PNG, 24bits, 8bits, you pick what works best for you. This is brilliant.

Not rendering on Safari 8 though.

Safari 8 has no problems with "image/svg+xml". It renders the "image" if you open the link: http://funny.computer/cloud/XNG/distance.xng

For getting the xng on the page just replace the <img> with an <embed>.

Would have been very cool if it could have worked on all browsers using a simple img tag.

Safari 8 on Yosemite here, and it animated that link for me.

Commenters reported not working well on Firefox either.

It's just a bit heavy on Firefox compared to GIFs, but works.

My bleeding edge 33.0 display them but has some issues.

For example if you scroll, they may freeze, if you scroll again sometimes work again sometimes not.

Sometimes they freeze at the end.

But it's exciting.