Tony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoPNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animationwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square96fedilinkarrow-up1783arrow-down13cross-posted to: photography@lemmy.world
arrow-up1780arrow-down1external-linkPNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animationwww.tomshardware.comTony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square96fedilinkcross-posted to: photography@lemmy.world
minus-squareGhostalmedia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up58·6 months agoAnimated PNG has been trying to be an extension to the PNG spec for 20+ years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
minus-squareAusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoYep, it was one of the ways to have an animated avatar on BB forums. Most recently, I have seen them being used in animated chat stickers (like on Signal).
minus-squaremlg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·6 months agoRight there’s actually like a select few applications that support it which is cool, but so many get confused when they see an apng file with frames.
minus-squarefinitebanjo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoProbably still more supported than Webp and Webm
Animated PNG has been trying to be an extension to the PNG spec for 20+ years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
Yep, it was one of the ways to have an animated avatar on BB forums.
Most recently, I have seen them being used in animated chat stickers (like on Signal).
Right there’s actually like a select few applications that support it which is cool, but so many get confused when they see an apng file with frames.
Probably still more supported than Webp and Webm