Suggestion: Animated GIF to HTML 5 video

Interesting idea, Cloudinary actually gives me somewhat of a basis for implementation: https://cloudinary.com/blog/reduce_size_of_animated_gifs_automatically_convert_to_webm_and_mp4#http_res_cloudinary_com_demo_image_upload_w_150_h_150_c_fill_kitten_fighting_gif

Going to stick this as a feature request for folks to vote on.

I like this idea, there is one problem however, this would produce incompatibility with featured images, so if you wanted to use a GIF for a featured image this option would not be useful, so you’d probably have to add a checkbox per image, which might be a little too over-developed.

It COULD mess up featured images depending on the styling used. Any GIFs within regular content should be pretty flexible though. It would definitely make it tricky, but I think it is feasible. We might have to make a setting to ensure that the html parser doesn’t scan the entire page for GIF images, just particular containers like “div.content”.

Sure that would be a good idea, maybe you could implement that with some kind of field that would allow the user to enter the container they want to be parsed, just in case they don’t use an averagely named one.

If this could all be done, I think it would be an awesome feature, and will definitely set EWWW up even better, not that it already isn’t :).

looking forward to this