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Help Dribbble change the GIF format to MP4(dribbble.com)

over 5 years ago from Emanuel S., Product Designer

  • Andrew C, over 5 years ago

    Web consortium (and Google) doesn’t like videos auto playing without a user consent—historically to prevent spam and abuse. It’ll be interesting to see if mp4 can enhance the UX of Dribbble without auto play. Auto playing gifs add a lot to the browsability of the preview grid.

    5 points
    • James LaneJames Lane, over 5 years ago

      No issue with Giphy using Webp though?

      1 point
      • Andrew C, over 5 years ago

        I've noticed news sites auto playing videos lately so the new specs coming out are opening up the use case, I guess. I'm just curious if this will be allowed to continue unimpeded by browsers.

        0 points
    • Norm Sheeran, over 5 years ago

      Auto play is allowed as long as the video doesn’t contain an audio track or the player has the mute attribute.

      8 points
    • Ole-Martin BrattengOle-Martin Bratteng, over 5 years ago

      As Nrom Sheeran pointed out, as long as the video doesn't contain audio, or is muted by default, autoplaying the video is not a problem. This is the same terms that Safari require to autoplay videos on iOS

      1 point