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Rounit Ranjan Sinha
Rounit Ranjan Sinha

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👨‍💻 Why passing GIFs in HTML's <img /> tag is acceptable by browsers but not the video file? 🗃

🔺 When it comes to web development, we often encounter the need to display different types of media content.
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is an image file format that supports animation, making it an ideal choice for short, looped animations.

🖊 Actually, it consists of a sequence of images displayed in a specific order to create the illusion of motion. Since GIF is essentially a series of static images, it can be displayed using the "img" tag just like any other image.T

🔺 However, videos are a different story. Unlike GIFs, videos consist of both audio and visual data, requiring dedicated video players for playback. To accommodate this, HTML provides the

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