Comments on: APNG Is Here!

By: SWC_Art_Director

SWC_Art_Director — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:46:29 +0000

We just started tests on apng for animated shields over planets/cities. We wanted to see if semitransparent animation looked ok.

Well, It works like a charm for Mozilla users! IE users only see the first frame which we did plan for.

By: Xavier

Xavier — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:04:41 +0000

Well, it’s nice, but what tool are there?
No editor tool (APNG editor is only a creator and cannot actually edit an APNG file), no mng2apng converter so it’s pretty useless for now. A pity.

By: Majesticskull

Majesticskull — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:03:35 +0000

APNG! Great news! This is the evolution!

By: The_PlaYer

The_PlaYer — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:29:15 +0000

This is great …… I love it
Resently downloaded Firefox 3 beta 4 and tested the support for APNG.
It is working great…….
The revolution for the public communities

By: The_Decryptor

The_Decryptor — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:19:47 +0000

Cool, i had only ever heard of the NPAPI one, but if there are hooks with xpcom then that’s a lot better.

I’d try my hand at writing one, if i wasn’t so bad at C (and who knows, maybe we will see a AJNG in the future)

By: Stuart Parmenter

Stuart Parmenter — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:13:42 +0000

Decryptor: There were 2 “mng plugins” — one was an actual NPAPI plugin which will have a hard time with transparency. The other was an xpcom component extension which works directly with the image library in the same way as all the internal ones and can fully support transparency.

xeen: No ETA yet. We want to see it supported in those very much and will be talking to the right people.

By: xeen

xeen — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:06:49 +0000

This is great! Any idea when (or even if) Opera and Webkit do plan to support APNG?
Once these drawing engines supoport APNG and are adopted widely it’s pretty safe to use. If it’s limited to Gecko powered applications it’s a nice-to-have, but nothing more.

By: The_Decryptor

The_Decryptor — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:51:03 +0000

Can an addon provide support for the alpha blending in JNG though, like an internal module can?

Because when i tried the MNG plugin, it always rendered it on a white background (or another colour set).

By: Stuart Parmenter

Stuart Parmenter — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:14:58 +0000

Steven:

The GIMP guys have expressed interest before and I sent them mail yesterday. Hope to have something from them soon. We’ll get a tool put up somewhere in the next few days (or you can look at http://littlesvr.ca/apng/ under the tutorials and built it all yourself).

ant:
JNG isn’t really related to MNG. Please put up an extension on addons to support JNG, HD Photo, JPEG2000 or whatever your favorite image format is!

By: ant

ant — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:42:48 +0000

Well, looks like JNG will never see the light of day now. That’s a shame, I really couldn’t care less about animated images given what most people use them for. :/