It sounds like your second statement contradicts your first. But also, WUFFS exists and it looks like the Google Chrome GIF decoder ships in it: https://github.com/google/wuffs
replyIt does not contradict it, and also, a gif is not a video.
reply> a gif is not a video.
replyThey're not that different; the image codec WebP is derived from VP8's intra-frame coding.