Animated gif on Viewport

I s there a way to view animated gif on viewport

http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/19273/is-it-possible-to-load-animated-gifs
Try it yourself to see if it works in current version. Use the Image as Planes addon or the background image option to load your gif and see if it works. If not then convert it to an video or image sequence in a format that does work

Thanks Richard