> It'd be lovely to have photos / screenshots / gifs all able to share a common format.
Given the way GIF is used nowadays the only reason it exists is it let's you put a video on the most of the places where you are only allowed to put pictures. For some weird reason many of such websites still won't let you upload an MP4 file despite they auto-convert the gifs you upload to MP4/AVC. From the technical point of view there hardly is a reason for GIF to be used at all.
Objectively worse are infinite CSS-animations with opacity:0 set on them that Blink can't figure out are indeed invisible and don't need repainting at 60fps. Cue me noticing my CPU is at 100% and 69°C after about 2 minutes...
(ThinkPad T400s are really bad at thermal management.)
Given the way GIF is used nowadays the only reason it exists is it let's you put a video on the most of the places where you are only allowed to put pictures. For some weird reason many of such websites still won't let you upload an MP4 file despite they auto-convert the gifs you upload to MP4/AVC. From the technical point of view there hardly is a reason for GIF to be used at all.