"Several replacements for the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) have been proposed \u2014 usually HTML5 video \u2014 for the display of short, silent, looping, moving picture files on the web.Videos resolve many issues that GIFs present through common usage on the web. These include drastically smaller file sizes, the ability to surpass the 8-bit color restriction, and better frame-handling and compression through codecs."@en .