How does giphy enable playback of animated gifs on facebook

Question

I'm fairly certain that I know how magnets work, but I am intrigued as to how http://giphy.com/ managed to get animated gif's to work on Facebook. Does anyone have a clue as to how this is done? Is it mime-type substitution or some undocumented type? All the other methods that I've researched do not work.

Answer 1

Apparently they get around it by converting it to flash. Here's the Mashable article on it. So technically they aren't gifs by the time they get to Facebook.

Answer 2

I suppose the gifs and not coverted to flash files. Facebook plays gif links by default. You just need to use the correct "og" tags for images while coding

<meta property="og:type" content="**video.other**" />
<meta property="og:title" content="***Your page title***" />
<meta property="og:url" content="***Your-image-url***" />
<meta property="og:image:type" content="**image/gif**"

You should the following use facebook share debugger tool to compare and correct your coding.

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/

Tip: Paste a link from giphy and then your site to the facebook debugger tool and compare both of them while coding