• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    23 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.

    • SatyrSack@quokk.auOP
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      23 days ago

      In what way do AVIF files “load as videos”? They are image files. Your web browser renders them as images. Your Lemmy client renders them as images. It is not AVI.