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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Chris Lilley
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Chrome intent to ship
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-dev/xEOyu8QFCr0/3oqSlHBxCwAJ -
Evgeny Vrublevsky commented
The latest Chromium supports APNG finally.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/7d2b8c45afc9c0230410011293cc2e1dbb8943a7
It will be included in the Chrome 59 release.
Microsoft, it's time to move! -
Jeshua
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Microsoft can't simply implement APNG.
First, they want to promote their JPEG XR (like Google do same with WebP).
Second, they getting money as member of MPEG-LA, and situation when you can choose only between old, big and laggy GIF and modern MPEG-formats is a win-win.
Third, GIF animation in IE (and Edge) done as a dirty hack — GIF in Windows by default has no animation, and they do not want APNG because then it must be done as system-wide solution or as slow and hard-to-maintain hack too. That's requires work on core, which noone wants (and in current MS actually noone cans) to do.
And fourth is a watching against Google. If Big Brother will introduce animated PNGs in their browser and it will be popular on services like imgur and FB, then MS will do it too. But Google want to promote their WebP/WebM 'cause Google not getting as much money from MPEG-LA as MS gets.So there's almost question about money, not about good things on web.
Wanna change it — switch to Firefox/Palemoon, boycott Edge and Chrome-based browsers if do not want support business giants ambitions. If not — all other web engines will die like Opera Presto and then monopoly (or "duopoly") will make a web is a very uncomfortable place. -
Evgeny Vrublevsky (VEG)
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Chromium developers are implementing APNG support:
https://codereview.chromium.org/2386453003/ -
Chromium developers are planning to add APNG support: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1171 (see the latest activity in the issue).
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Permutator
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Chromium is (finally) working on this, which means it will be in Google Chrome and Opera. Edge is the last major browser not to show enthusiasm for APNG.
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Anonymous
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Must support this format (APNG (animated PNG), it increases the diversity.
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Anonymous
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We need this. it's the only format that is image and do support true transparency and colours.
All the others are not image or don't support true transparency or colours (for example WebM)
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Anonymous
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Must have.
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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