Animated PNGs support added to Mozilla code
Proposed a few years ago by Vladimir Vukicevic and Stuart Parmenter, support for Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) images has finally landed on the trunk, Mozilla’s main development code.
PNG, is an image format developed in the mid-90s, mainly as an alternative to GIF files which were (and still are) widely used in millions of web sites after Unisys, the owner of the patent for this file format, started enforcing it. Besides being royalty free, PNG offers other advantages like a full pallette (GIF files can only use 256 colors at a time in a single file unless a really ugly hack is used), better compression and partial transparency which allows sharper images. (more…)
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Posted on Wednesday March 21st
