APNG: Coming soon to a browser near you
Over the last week or so, Vlad and I put together a spec for an Animated PNG format. Vlad wrote an encoder and I got decoding working in Mozilla. The bug is here including the patch. Things work pretty well and you can do some sweet animations. The code is tiny, espically compared to MNG.
August 27, 2004 at 6:15 pm
animated png images?
It looks like our very own Stuart Parmenter (aka Pavlov) and Vlad have developed an extension to PNG that gives web developers an opportunity to build animated PNGs (APNG). Having full 8-bit alpha transparent animations based on the standard PNG format…
August 27, 2004 at 7:37 pm
What’s the advantage of using APNG over the perfectly good MNG code just waiting to be checked into Mozilla?
August 27, 2004 at 9:28 pm
MNG is a 200k+ extension.. this is ~5k
August 27, 2004 at 11:39 pm
Any plan to create tool for generating APNG from PNGs? e.g. a convertor, or even a ImageReady plugin…
P.S. Sorry but I’m using BugMeNot… so this is not my real ID…
August 28, 2004 at 1:04 am
There is a basic tool for making APNGs at the bottom of the spec page.. http://www.vlad1.com/~vladimir/projects/apng/
August 29, 2004 at 12:47 pm
MNG Misunderstandings
I’ve been reading the various bugs, blog postings and specs about APNG, Vlad and pavlov’s proposed extension to PNG to allow animation. Obviously, this has raised the question of “what about MNG?” I’ve been surprised to see several people, who…
October 26, 2004 at 8:06 am
Wu-ping, thanks a lot for the link.
Cheers,
Lenny