Safari was also late to implement AV1 video support. Based on caniuse website, only MS Edge was later, though you could install an extension to get it running.

Oh, and when I say "support", I mean you'd have to buy a new device.

Supported only on devices with hardware decoder, e.g. iPhone 15 Pro, M3 MacBook Pro, etc.

Edit: Chrome since v. 70 (2018-10-16), Firefox fully since v. 67 (2019-05-21), Firefox partially since v. 55 (2017-08-08) whatever "Not supported by default, but can be enabled" means, Safari since v. 17 on newer devices (2023-09-26)

https://caniuse.com/av1

I heard that SVGs in <img> tags are more restricted than ones in <object> or plain <svg> tags. Try using these instead.

In my experience inkscape does a great job importing custom svg's. From there you can export them in other formats

Well yeah, you didn't withhold money from them. If you're going to throw money at them for removing features every new release, why the hell would they update their browser?

there's no single proper tool to export the fricking SVG to GIF

Not even ffmpeg?

Assuming you haven't tried it, what about an online converter to APNG? Those look like they are almost fully supported by every major browser (and have transparency!)

As for the online converter part, it might end up looking terrible but it's a place to start I guess

Meanwhile it’s been like 10–2 yrs and Firefox still hasn’t got a month picker. It’s so weird sometimes.

Use lottiefiles or something similar. That seems the defacto standard for vector animations on mobile and the web.

Spent hours tracking down a test failure process and introduced a new bug in the process.

I don't know what works on Safari as I haven't even tried to design for it since before flash died. Have you tried JS libraries like GSAP?

https://gsap.com/svg/

So what? Fuck Safari. Hardly anyone uses it anyway.

I ended up making a script to convert them properly, from things I found on the web here and there.

https://github.com/pixelfed-glitch/brand-assets/blob/main/svgtogif.js

For resizing GIFs, I recommend imagemagick CLI tool though.

Easy, just record the screen as a gif with Peek

Apple should experience bij.