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Would've been great to see this happen five years, seems like it's largely irrelevant now with the prevalence of HTML5 video compression for short clips.

• coob 12y ago
  For photorealistic video yes, but APNG is much more suited than anything else for animated graphics where SVG isn't a good fit.
  • espadrine 12y ago
    Do you have examples where APNG wins compression-wise relative to H.264?
    • maxst 12y ago
      JPEG usually wins over PNG compression-wise, but in some use cases it makes sense to use PNG. The same thing with animation/video.
    • coob 12y ago
      Suited in terms of desired quality, not necessarily file size. Sometimes you need pixel perfect frames, not 4:2:2 b-frame messiness.
  • TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
    If nothing else, this lets you make loading spinners with proper alpha-blended antialiased edges (so you don't need "dark background" and "light background" versions).
    • duskwuff 12y ago
      Indeed, as far as I know, most video formats currently playable in browsers don't support transparency at all.
• TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
  Hardly. Mobile Safari just added APNG, and web video is still not going to be as convenient as images for some time to come.
• maxst 12y ago
  That's what we have in 2015: https://www.google.com/logos/doodles/2015/st-patricks-day-2015-5203623298465792-hp.gif https://www.google.com/logos/doodles/2015/st-patricks-day-20...
  • MLR 12y ago
    Or something similar to this - http://gfycat.com/SomeUnkemptKrill http://gfycat.com/SomeUnkemptKrill Slight quality loss admittedly, but a huge bandwidth saving and I believe supported across all browsers now. I'll admit however I didn't think about some other advantages of PNG (transparency for one), which would mean it was more suitable in some situations.
    • 0x0 12y ago
      Well at least on iOS the video requires a tap to play and then promptly goes fullscreen (requiring another two taps to dismiss)