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4th December 2017 - Link Blog

Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF (via) Safari Technology Preview lets you use <img src="movie.mp4">, for high quality animated gifs in 1/14th of the file size.

Posted 4th December 2017 at 7:28 pm

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