René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Add gifs of usage to widget examples","articleBody":"\u003c!--To help us understand and resolve your issue, please fill out the form to the best of your ability.--\u003e\r\n\u003c!--You can feel free to delete the sections that do not apply.--\u003e\r\n\r\n### Problem\r\n\r\nIt can be hard to discern what a widget example does as for many of them there are no images that show up in the docs. For example the [Lasso Selector Demo](https://matplotlib.org/devdocs/gallery/widgets/lasso_selector_demo_sgskip.html#sphx-glr-gallery-widgets-lasso-selector-demo-sgskip-py) has no image and the [Lasso Demo](https://matplotlib.org/devdocs/gallery/event_handling/lasso_demo.html#sphx-glr-gallery-event-handling-lasso-demo-py) only has a static image. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c!--\r\nIf you are referencing an existing piece of documentation or example please provide a link.\r\n\r\n* I found [...] to be unclear because [...]\r\n* [...] made me think that [...] when really it should be [...]\r\n* There is no example showing how to do [...]\r\n--\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n### Suggested Improvement\r\nManually generate GIFS of the usage and embed them onto the example pages. For example here is a GIF of me using the LassoSelector demo:\r\n![lasso-selector](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10111092/103472284-c2c43a00-4d59-11eb-8c03-59ca6e2b9489.gif)\r\n\r\nI'm not sure if sphinx-gallery supports this though? maybe embeding and html `\u003cimg\u003e` tag into the comment at the top would work?\r\nAlso instead of `.gifs` I it would be better to keep files small by using `.apng` and running them https://tinypng.com/","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ianhi","@type":"Person","name":"ianhi"},"datePublished":"2021-01-03T05:24:41.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":13},"url":"https://github.com/19222/matplotlib/issues/19222"}