What alternatives to Animated GIFs are natively supported on all popular modern browsers on tablets, etc. without pluggins?

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Published on 2013-10-18T18:57:09Z Indexed on 2013/10/20 22:12 UTC
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I was looking for an alternative animated images to Animated GIFS.

But per CanIUseit support for APNGs seems to being phased out. And MNG support isn't even listed there and pages about it don't even mention Chrome (suggesting those pages are very very old)

Clarification: This is for a web app, so it'll need to support: - Safari on iPad (so can't depend on extensions) - Chrome on Windows and Mac - Safari 6.0+ on Mac - Chrome on Android

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