Caniuse: What does support look like for GIFV?

Created on 8 Jul 2016 · 5Comments · Source: Fyrd/caniuse

GIFV seems to be an improved format for posting animated GIFs that fall back to mp4 or webm, but I can't find much information about them... would be great to have support posted here.

Blog post by Imgur about introduction of GIFV in 2014: http://blog.imgur.com/2014/10/09/introducing-gifv/

Reddit post from one of the guys who worked on it addressing some FAQs: https://np.reddit.com/r/HighQualityGifs/comments/4qxl6o/are_you_ready/d4x5xj1?context=3

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mattwojo

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GIFV is not actually a distinct file format, but it is an MP4 or WebM video that is presented via a HTML5 <video> element or an Adobe Flash element with options set so as to make it work similarly to an animated GIF (i.e. endless loop with no video controls visible).

– http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/GIFV

cvrebert on 9 Jul 2016

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GIFV is not actually a distinct file format, but it is an MP4 or WebM video that is presented via a HTML5 <video> element or an Adobe Flash element with options set so as to make it work similarly to an animated GIF (i.e. endless loop with no video controls visible).

– http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/GIFV

cvrebert on 9 Jul 2016

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Super helpful! Thank you @cvrebert ! ...closing this issue.

mattwojo on 11 Jul 2016

I think this should be re-opened. The following gif video does not work on chrome, but works on safari. http://i.imgur.com/Kpy8R9B.gifv