News PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation

[Admin]

The W3C updated PNG to make it work with HDR content, and it expects to receive a couple more updates in the near future.

PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation : Read more

 

[Notton]

Was APNG not an official format?
I could have sworn it's existed for some 5+ years. It's used in animated discord stickers.

 

[Li Ken-un]

There was MNG which died an early death in 2003, but was actually implemented in some browsers for a short while.

 

[wakuwaku]

Was APNG not an official format?
I could have sworn it's existed for some 5+ years. It's used in animated discord stickers.

nope it was rejected by the previous guys that managed the PNG format. And it existed for 2 decades actually.

Long before discord existed, back in early to mid 201xs, maybe late 200x although i doubt my useless memory, when community forums were still a thing (yes I know we're in a forum, I mean there's a forum for every little thing.), I dabbled in APNGs to create better animated forum avatars, as everyone was using GIFs and they all looked like rubbish.

The article is a bit misleading. It makes people think PNG suddenly can animate. More like, the PNG format now recognizes the 20 year old APNG extension as part of the PNG standard for animation. Maybe should've used Tom's AI to write this.

 

[d0x360]

Yeah nice but what about HDR GIF?

 

[RedBear87]

Was APNG not an official format?
I could have sworn it's existed for some 5+ years. It's used in animated discord stickers.

APNG was an unofficial extension introduced by Mozilla (a company once known for a dying browser called Firefox that I and 5 other guys still use), it was "retro-compatible" insofar any program capable to read PNG files was able to read the first frame, but it was never standardised until now.

 

[llothar]

Are the changes already in libpng?

 

[BryanFRitt]

Now with added spyware capabilities to match other image formats!

• Officially supports Exif data​

  Exif stores additional information such as copyright information and even camera lens and GPS location of a photograph.

PNG is back!

After 20 years, PNG is back with renewed vigor! A new PNG spec was just released.

www.programmax.net

Edit: GPS location - This is where on planet Earth the photograph is taken. (Question: What happens if it's not on planet Earth?)

 

[tisamemo]

There’s already a perfectly good format that has lossless and lossy compression support, HDR and animation…. It’s called JPEGXL….