APNG (animated PNG) images support [Firefox and Safari 8 support it]
APNG is an extension of the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format, adding support for animated images. It is intended to be a replacement for simple animated images that have traditionally used the GIF format, while adding support for 24-bit images and 8-bit transparency. APNG is backwards-compatible with PNG; any PNG decoder should be able to ignore the APNG-specific chunks and display a single image.
GIF vs. APNG vs. animated WebP: http://littlesvr.ca/apng/gif_apng_webp.html
Support status: http://caniuse.com/#feat=apng (Firefox and Safari 8 support APNG)
Specification: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Animated_PNG_graphics
Evgeny Vrublevsky (VEG)
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Nik
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Lets do APNG!
For web developers Alpha/Animated PNG will be the smart and easy tool to reach native 32bit-alpha animation effects!Firefox and Opera Presto can it a long time, and from 2014 Safari joined to support this smart format.
Edge, IE, lets do it too!So, Chrome will forced to support it too, and thier WebM will grow as parallel issue.
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Clef
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The Edge team said themselves that "any Edge-WebKit differences are bugs that we’re interested in fixing". Seeing as both Safari and iOS Safari support APNG, surely this should be implemented as soon as possible, instead of being left under review since August last year.
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Steven Vachon
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check out WebFrames: https://github.com/webframes/webframes
it's better than APNG -
Anonymous
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Tumblr already support it
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Prehistoricman
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Surely AJPEG would be a more sensible format? PNGs tend to be large and not suitable for the web.
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Evgeny Vrublevsky (VEG)
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APNG support for Chromium: https://codereview.chromium.org/1250373006/
There are only ≈500 additional lines of code. -
Techie007
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Yes. Same over in the Windows section ( https://windows.uservoice.com/forums/265757-windows-feature-suggestions/filters/top )
Very disappointed with Microsoft. :-(I would love to see this suggestion as well as the ones below implemented in Microsoft Edge (if not IE too):
https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/257854-microsoft-edge-developer/suggestions/6508954-native-webm
https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/257854-microsoft-edge-developer/suggestions/6508429-web-midi-api
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Ben Bout commented
Has anybody noticed how few of these high rated suggestions are actually being worked on?
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Glenn Barker commented
Animated images are widely used. Whether people like them or not isn't the issue, they are used everywhere and the gif format is too limiting. I understand that rebuilding the browser takes time and this isn't going to be high on the priority list right off the bat, but this should be somewhere on the road map.
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Max Stepin
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I received a comment from MS Edge developers:
https://twitter.com/MSEdgeDev/status/596197829414035456
Here's the current status of modern image formats:
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Arman Hayots commented
APNG *MUST BE* implemented.
http://littlesvr.ca/apng/gif_apng_webp.html -
This format must be implemented few years ago and already became standard.
Go-go, MSFT guys, do not disappoint us! -
WebKit core now supports it too. I guess it's only a matter of time before we'll see it in Google Chrome.
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Jaff
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APNG support should normally have already been implemented!
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Max Stepin
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ESA using animated GIF to show Philae landing site before/after:
http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/14/philaes-first-touchdown-seen-by-rosetta/
Is it time for something simple, lossless, not restricted to 256 colors?
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Aken B.
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I think it is an improvement over the GIF workhorse. You just have to put the APNG and GIF to the test and you will see. The results should be crystal clear.
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rotek
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APNG support can be easily introduced with a very little additional code. Please consider it, this is just two week job for one developer.
There are many APNG files already in the Internet, even on Wikipedia!