• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    hmmmm

    gifs load as images while avifs load as videos, because that’s what they are. Imagine the resources used when loading a page with 2000 avifs and you have autoplay videos enabled on your browser.

    gifs on the other hand, load one frame at a time and just cycle through each frame after they have loaded.

    I think theoretically, avif is a better solution but the applicability of them is going to be difficult to apply unilaterally like gifs.