WebM explodes in popularity and adoption in a matter of hours

[Zulithe]

Thanks to 4chan adding webm support, in just a few hours the format, which an audio-video container format designed to provide royalty-free, open video compression for use with HTML5 video, is exploding in use across the internet!

The biggest gaming website also launched a WebM plugin for its website that allows embedding of them like gifs all across the forum

Will we ever get WebM support here at the Drome? I sure hope so!

So, why WebM over gifs?

WebM allows for vastly better image quality, higher framerates, better compression, smaller filesizes... and even audio.

Here's some cool .webm files, they should play right in your browser if you are using the newest version of Firefox, Chrome or Opera (aka hopefully everyone!)

http://a.pomf.se/irkhym.webm (has sound)
http://a.pomf.se/ooherk.webm (has sound)
http://a.pomf.se/scskxq.webm (example of high frame rate video clip)
http://i.4cdn.org/wsg/src/1396794276453.webm (high frame rate game clip)
Check out a bunch more gaming webms here

one big downside is that iOS does not properly display them as intended, but hopefully all things in good time.