Safari can play MP4 directly from <img>, so it's actually best of all browsers in this area.
You should be mad at Google, who invented a whole new format based on obsolete VP8, which is even less efficient than its VP8-based WebM precursor. And it's literally because they couldn't make their VP9-capable decoder work in <img>. Animated WebP is Chrome's tech debt.
You should be mad at Google, who invented a whole new format based on obsolete VP8, which is even less efficient than its VP8-based WebM precursor. And it's literally because they couldn't make their VP9-capable decoder work in <img>. Animated WebP is Chrome's tech debt.