Comments on: APNG New and Notable http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/09/apng-new-and-notable/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:41:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matthew Babbs http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/09/apng-new-and-notable/comment-page-1/#comment-3698 Matthew Babbs Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:15:54 +0000 http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/09/apng-new-and-notable/#comment-3698 @Name: It seems the main reason the PNG group rejected APNG was that they felt it should have its own filename extension, instead of using .png. Mozilla and Opera decided that backwards-compatibility was more important. (Browsers that don't support APNG will just display the first frame as a static PNG.) Implementing APNG as a separate library rather than an extension to PNG would have meant having to use the HTTP_Accept header to swap out APNGs for UAs that didn't know about them - and who bothered to do that during the PNG/GIF transition? @Name: It seems the main reason the PNG group rejected APNG was that they felt it should have its own filename extension, instead of using .png. Mozilla and Opera decided that backwards-compatibility was more important. (Browsers that don’t support APNG will just display the first frame as a static PNG.) Implementing APNG as a separate library rather than an extension to PNG would have meant having to use the HTTP_Accept header to swap out APNGs for UAs that didn’t know about them – and who bothered to do that during the PNG/GIF transition?

]]> By: Name http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/09/apng-new-and-notable/comment-page-1/#comment-3681 Name Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:11:20 +0000 http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/09/apng-new-and-notable/#comment-3681 Yes, SVG image support would be awesome. Yes, SVG image support would be awesome.

]]> By: Alfred Kayser http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/09/apng-new-and-notable/comment-page-1/#comment-3678 Alfred Kayser Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:13:05 +0000 http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/09/apng-new-and-notable/#comment-3678 I would be more interesting if these SMIL/SVG things could be displayed directly within a page, instead of first converting these to APNG. The memory usage of APNG's is huge (width*height*frames*4bytes), while the example SVG's are very small (only a few K). So, let's extend FF with display support SVG/SMIL! I would be more interesting if these SMIL/SVG things could be displayed directly within a page, instead of first converting these to APNG.

The memory usage of APNG’s is huge (width*height*frames*4bytes), while the example SVG’s are very small (only a few K).

So, let’s extend FF with display support SVG/SMIL!

]]> By: Name http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/09/apng-new-and-notable/comment-page-1/#comment-3676 Name Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:37:25 +0000 http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/09/apng-new-and-notable/#comment-3676 The PNG group rejected APNG so... why are you adding it? The PNG group rejected APNG so… why are you adding it?

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