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GIF animations to document blogs

Jan Cumps
Jan Cumps over 4 years ago

In the past I used videos, with talk, or without talk, to explain dynamic behaviour of projects.
Lately, when I thought it made sense, I switched to short snippets showing behaviour. And when short enough (seconds) to animated GIFs.

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I don't really like the silent videos, but the silent GIFs in a story work for me.
Like Jupyter executable notebooks, this allows to show behaviour. It also makes blogs a bit "busy/alive" depending on taste.

Thoughts?

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  • cstanton
    cstanton over 4 years ago
    Jan Cumps said:
    Thoughts?

    I love gifs, from a technical standpoint I hate gifs.

    They're old tech' which are outdated, unoptimised and many sites automatically replace them with embedded MP4 videos because MP4 videos can auto play just like them, are smaller in size, and are better optimised for slow website/transmission delivery.

    I love how much information they can convey, as you say, and sometimes a gif speaks for itself.

    Nodding man

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  • cstanton
    cstanton over 4 years ago
    Jan Cumps said:
    Thoughts?

    I love gifs, from a technical standpoint I hate gifs.

    They're old tech' which are outdated, unoptimised and many sites automatically replace them with embedded MP4 videos because MP4 videos can auto play just like them, are smaller in size, and are better optimised for slow website/transmission delivery.

    I love how much information they can convey, as you say, and sometimes a gif speaks for itself.

    Nodding man

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  • fmilburn
    fmilburn over 4 years ago in reply to cstanton

    How do you suggest MP4 videos be embedded in e14 if autoplay is desired?  Is it necessary to edit the HTML?

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