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[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

It's great that Papua New Guinea is still receiving updates /s

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Would this be the Gif killer? If PNG can contain a relatively similar frame count & time limit but with marginally better image quality it just may.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How does this compare to nvidia JXR hdr screenshots ?

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 days ago

This has a chance of being widely adopted? Lol

[–] db2@lemmy.world 147 points 1 week ago (31 children)

But is it backwards compatible with an old version that can't be updated?

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 91 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Yeah, this was my first thought. How many slightly older, no-longer-being-updated pieces of software will fail to open the new version? Hopefully it’s built in a way that it just falls back to legacy and ignores the extra information so you can at least load the file.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Popular photo and video editing apps like Photoshop, DaVinci Resolve, and Avid Media Composer already support it, alongside Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. Apple’s iOS and macOS also work with the new file standard.

This is all the article mentions. I hope you’re right about the backwards compatibility.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 68 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember the Wild West Web days when it was a toss up seeing if animated Gifs, transparencies in images, or the specific hexadecimal for your personal shade of purple you created would render properly between browsers.

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[–] tourist@lemmy.world 112 points 1 week ago (4 children)

2029 Headline: Worlds largest data breach caused by zero day exploit in popular PNG 3.0 renderer

the payload was reportedly embedded in an animated image of the attacker repeatedly flicking his left testicle

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

That was because they added 'shorts' and friend-lists to it.

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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Animated PNG has been trying to be an extension to the PNG spec for 20+ years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG

Yep, it was one of the ways to have an animated avatar on BB forums.

Most recently, I have seen them being used in animated chat stickers (like on Signal).

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Right there's actually like a select few applications that support it which is cool, but so many get confused when they see an apng file with frames.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Probably still more supported than Webp and Webm

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

I could have sworn animated pngs were a thing in the Macromedia Fireworks days. Really dating myself with that ref.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 49 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There were two different animated PNG extensions, MNG and APNG. Neither of them ever really caught on. I guess they're hoping to do better by baking it into the core spec.

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