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Does anyone know why the APNG format was rejected by the PNG group? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG) It seems like a gre
by jobu 11y ago
Does anyone know why the APNG format was rejected by the PNG group? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG)
It seems like a great replacement for animated GIFs.
- jcranmer 11y agoAPNG was rejected primarily because it used image/png when it was clearly a video, and the WG felt that images shouldn't handle video. When video/png was offered instead, Mozilla rejected that because it felt backwards compatibility was more important. So, basically, it was rejected due to a pissing contest on the least important part of the specification.
- maxst 11y agolibpng is a reference implementation of the PNG format. They don't have to support every third-party extension. But libpng provides callback methods for "unknown" chucks, so the application can read and handle them. So it's possible to process APNG with libpng.