I don't understand this gifv thing (Destiny)

by Beorn , <End of Failed Timeline>, Friday, January 30, 2015, 10:13 (3588 days ago) @ Korny

Sorta thread hijack, sorry.

There is no such thing as a "gifv" format. It's just a standard HTML5 <video> tag with MP4/WebM sources and a fallback Flash player, all posing as a single file with an incorrect extension. When you request a .gifv file from imgur, the response is an HTML document. Might as well be .html or .php.

The branding of .gifv makes it seem like you should be able to just use it in an <img> tag, but that doesn't work because it's not an image of any kind!

The web designer in me is frustrated at this. Someone at Imgur thought this was a cute idea, but it's really just shortsighted and prone to breaking stuff:

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Screenshot of broken Imgur crap hosted by Imgur. :)

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Where I go, DogCow follows. - CruelLEGACEY, 2015-01-30, 07:16
- I'm going to use your video as a springboard! - INSANEdrive, 2015-01-30, 07:55
  - gifv doesn't play well with embedding... - Korny, 2015-01-30, 08:31
    - Thanks Korny. - INSANEdrive, 2015-01-30, 10:11
    - I don't understand this gifv thing - Beorn, 2015-01-30, 10:13
- Where I go, DogCow follows. :D - dogcow, 2015-01-30, 08:24
  - Where I go, DogCow follows. :D - CruelLEGACEY, 2015-01-30, 11:18

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