Gif Player

In what is without doubt the most practical .gif post yet, allow me to introduce Gif Player: a VS Code extension that adds a play/pause button and scrubber to any gif you open in VS Code.

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Gif Player uses VS Code’s Custom Editor API to implement a feature that I wish every browser and operating system had out of the box. Rather than building this functionality into VS Code though, I thought Gif Player would be a perfect use case for Custom Editors (I am more than a tad biased since I created VS Code’s Custom Editor API).

And although Gif Player is terribly lacking in both cats and Nick Cage (a problem which I leave to the reader), the extension did at least build on code from my past .gif projects.

So, give it a try!