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by maxst 10y ago
It's serious business. http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/06/line-270m-a-year-sticker-sa...
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by maxst 10y ago
> so it'd be best to forget that GIF and APNG ever existed. There are some good arguments in "Why not simply support WebM in <img>?": https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/faq#why_should_
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by maxst 10y ago
Supported http://littlesvr.ca/apng/inter-frame.html
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Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG(chromium.googlesource.com)
234 points by maxst 10y ago|140 comments
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by maxst 10y ago
The government is leading the way because they have NASA budget to spend on completely unprofitable, but scientifically interesting projects.
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by maxst 10y ago
> The lossy variant (which is the only interesting one) does not support full-resolution color. You have to live with chroma subsampling which messes up anything with sharp saturated colors. I always wondered if 4:4:4 but with more aggre
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by maxst 10y ago
Still, it's not clear what subset of libwebp features will become popular. For example, I don't see much enthusiasm for animated webp. Even their own blog is full of GIFs: https://blog.google/products/allo&#x2
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by maxst 10y ago
> Actually impossible, not just expensive like getting someone to Mars in the very near future. The tech didn't exist. What about the tech to grow food in space? Is it "just expensive" or it doesn't exists? I think it
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by maxst 10y ago
The article is completely wrong about technical aspects of animated GIFs: > Unlike GIFs, video files don't actually contain every frame of animation you see > As a GIF, it takes up more than 60 MB because every single frame needs
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by maxst 10y ago
The resistance is all but disappeared. No doubt we'll see APNG is Chrome, and WebP in Firefox within a year or so.
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by maxst 10y ago
Somebody, make "image format powered by brotli", please.
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by maxst 10y ago
Cassini also spent several years exploring Saturn system, but discovery of geysers on Enceladus and rivers/lakes on Titan only makes them more interesting. Gas giants by itself are less interesting. Sure they will photograph those enor
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by maxst 11y ago
libpng 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&#x2
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by maxst 11y ago
It doesn't have to be completely self-sufficient. They have 15 pressurized modules, I don't understand why 1 of them can't be dedicated to advance this vital technology.
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by maxst 11y ago
At the very least, ISS should have a module or two dedicated to growing food. Right now. I don't understand why they're neglecting this technology.
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by maxst 11y ago
Paeth filter helps. This PNG is only 251 bytes: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/PNG-Grad...
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by maxst 11y ago
a.k.a. Thousands of Incompatible File Formats. These days it's basically "what libtiff supports".
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by maxst 11y ago
42x42 seems odd for JPEG, why not something divisible by 8 or 16?
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by maxst 11y ago
> We now employ 10 people and 5 robots. As a time traveler from 1960, I'm totally not surprised to read that.
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by maxst 11y ago
Devs who never abandoned their projects are doing fine. Not one of them complained about "hostile takeover".
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by maxst 11y ago
> Until they take that control from you. They won't because I'm not abandoning my projects. People who complain have one thing in common - they abandoned their projects on SF. It's kinda like letting the domain name expire
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by maxst 11y ago
Let's say it becomes possible. Then what? If your project is popular, it would be on softpedia, filehippo, majorgeeks and many other "free software" aggregators. If your project license allows others to distribute your softwa
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by maxst 11y ago
I keep complete control over my projects, and I'll make sure it won't happen.
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by maxst 11y ago
>What I don't understand about any of this is why anyone wouldn't just either move their project to Github or self host. Personally, I like their download stats: https://sourceforge.net/projects/apng/f
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by maxst 11y ago
They had this "You Can Take Over Abandoned Projects" policy for years: https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Abandoned%20Pr... I took over APNG project in 2011, nice short name, it was reall
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by maxst 11y ago
What about all the other websites? http://filehippo.com/download_nmap http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network-Tools/Misc-Networking-T... http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details&#
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by maxst 12y ago
Try this: https://sourceforge.net/projects/apngasm/
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by maxst 12y ago
APNG support in WebKit is implemented as a thin layer on top on regular vanilla libpng. So all that stuff is not very relevant.
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by maxst 12y ago
Yeah, France shared information about Moussaoui, Russia shared information about Tsarnaev, so it's hard to imagine U.S. withholding similar kind of information in similar situations, so it was probably a bluff. But still, that's p
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by maxst 12y ago
That's what we have in 2015: https://www.google.com/logos/doodles/2015/st-patricks-day-20...

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