Reply To: Vimeo-Homepage-style GIFs

[nixnerd]

Like this?

http://www.google.com/hangouts/

That is generally accomplished with a video on canvas. It’s not just a big GIF… like @chrisburton is suggesting.

This SICK thing about that is, you have full control over playback. You can pause, delay start, speed up, slow down, reverse, etc. Might come in handy.

As for how they are loading so crazy fast, that is because they are being buffered.

See this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15787380/what-is-206-partial-content