Tony Bark to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 7 days agoPNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animationwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square111arrow-up1823
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minus-squareGhostalmedialinkfedilinkEnglish60•7 days agoAnimated PNG has been trying to be an extension to the PNG spec for 20+ years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
minus-square@AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•5 days 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-square@mlg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish8•7 days 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-square@finitebanjo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•5 days 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