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Safari in iOS 10 Offers Improved Animated GIF Viewing and Stops Noisy Autoplay Videos

thisisnotmyname said:
Thank you! All browsers should implement a flag that stop ALL autoplay audio/video without explicit input from the user. No javascript and HTML5 workarounds. I'm fine with it impacting my browsing experience if I never have to deal with another autoplay video again.
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Personally, I would dearly love to have a per-tab switch in the toolbar to turn off all javascript processing for non-current tabs. If I want to specifically grant some of them background processing ability, fine, but when I have 100 browser tabs open across 10 windows (sigh, an all-too-often occurrence), 97% of them are there simply to remember exactly where I was on each given webpage, and I don't need/want them doing any processing, I just want them to sit there in stasis, waiting for the eventual return of my attention.
 
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It would be nice if it could stop this: image.png
 
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Oh good, because annoying autoplaying on a loop while I'm trying to read the d*mn article animated GIF's are EXACTLY what my iOS experience was lacking.

Yeesh.
 
I wish there was a way to make animated gifs stop looping forever when sent in iMessage.
 
pgiguere1 said:
Yeah the article is using "GIF" like it's a generic term for this kind of animated image. This feature has absolutely nothing to do with the actual .gif format.

I'm personally not a fan of using the GIF term like that, it's too ambiguous. I guess we would need a shorter term than "soundless autoplaying looping inline video".
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It's not ambiguous, it's wrong. Blatantly so. And until I read the comments, this article was making no sense at all to me because of it.

"Animated GIF" is a specific term for a specific thing with specific technical meaning--something that is widely used at that. Small looping video clips in another format, even if they serve the same purpose (and do it drastically better since animated GIF compression is embarrassingly inefficient), are no more "animated GIFs" than a RAW file is a JPEG.

We don't call a JPEG image of some text a "web page", we don't call FLAC files "MP3s", and if you start calling blu-ray discs or VCDs "DVDs", even though they all store video and look superficially the same, you're going to get some very annoyed people.

Why should any self-respecting news outlet call proper looping video clips "animated GIFs" when they're not?
 
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Amplelink said:
Holy sht, this thing is a godsend. The most annoying thing ever is ads that popup with audio.
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There's some other Mac website I hit occasionally, where they decided to "helpfully" put an only-sometimes-related video in the corner (not an ad, usually some how-to from their site) of every article page, and have it auto-play, with sound. Okay, so, the first time, I scroll back to the top of the page, hover over the window, and hit pause on the video. Annoying but I can deal. Nope, as soon as you start scrolling back down to read the article, the video starts playing again. Apparently the "pause" button is only intended/permitted for use while you are actively staring at the video, and you are required to "enjoy" the page with some guy talking at you while you're trying to read the text that they published on their site. A recipe for making visitors run away screaming. For that case, as well as for ads, this new feature will, indeed, be awesome.
 
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pgiguere1 said:
Yeah the article is using "GIF" like it's a generic term for this kind of animated image. This feature has absolutely nothing to do with the actual .gif format.

I'm personally not a fan of using the GIF term like that, it's too ambiguous. I guess we would need a shorter term than "soundless autoplaying looping inline video".

We should create that term, and while we're at it, create an actual replacement for the GIF format that's both standard and portable.
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I thought that's what webm or HTML5 were for?
 
I don't think the author of this article understood the blog post at WebKit.org.
 
C DM said:
In what sense?
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In every sense.

The article talks about improved animated GIF viewing, but it is in fact about (silent) video in replacement of GIF instead.

And it talks about blocking auto play videos, while it is in fact about relaxing the auto play restrictions.

So the author of this article got everything pretty much backwards.
 
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Awesome, hate autoplay videos. Though interesting move that will upset the advertising industry, well played apple.

Damn, read the source the videos will still play in there is no audio playback. Article should say it stops video audio.
 
This is nonsense, a GIF takes the same bandwidth, no matter the way it is played back. GIFs never contain audio.
 
I want videos to stay within their apps. I'm fed up of listing to music only for a video ad in Safari or another app to start playing which pauses my music and I have to close my app, find my music app and start my music again...
 
C DM said:
Video vs images? Different compressions?
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No. GIF is an ancient image format. It doesn't matter how you play it back. You can compress it differently, but then you lose color information. And it still doesn't matter how it's played back.
 
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No. GIF is an ancient image format. It doesn't matter how you play it back. You can compress it differently, but then you lose color information. And it still doesn't matter how it's played back.
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Sure it does. You can have an actual animated GIF as a collection of images within it, or you can for example have it as a video essentially.
 
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