> Gif is pretty bad, yes, but somehow I can browse pages with thousands of gifs. I can't browse pages with thousand of embedded videos.
That's true, but it's not limited by compression, only by assumptions/optimizations in the browsers.
For example browsers try very hard top stop decoding GIFs that are not currently visible on the screen. This could be done even better with a properly seekable video codec, but it's just not implemented.
No argument there. I was just stating a reason why gif-heavy site operators are reluctant to switch to video. It's chicken and the egg. They won't switch because video is not as optimised yet, the browser vendor has no reason to optimise video further because sites usually don't have that many embedded videos.
That's true, but it's not limited by compression, only by assumptions/optimizations in the browsers.
For example browsers try very hard top stop decoding GIFs that are not currently visible on the screen. This could be done even better with a properly seekable video codec, but it's just not implemented.