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iOS 8 Safari Supports Animated PNG Images With the release of iOS 8, Safari has gained the ability to display Animated PNGs (APNGs). Originally proposed in 2004 as a replacement to animated GIF images, APNGs offers more color and transparency support over GIFs. The Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) file format is a non-standard extension to the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) specification. It allows for animated PNG files that work similarly to animated GIF files, while supporting 24-bit images and 8-bit transparency not available for GIFs. It also retains backward compatibility with non-animated PNG files. The APNG specification, however, was rejected by the PNG group in 2007, so support for the format has been rather limited. In fact, the format has been declared dead due to the lack of official adoption. Firefox was the only major browser that provided standard support for APNG, until iOS 8. The beach ball image in this article is animated when viewed in iOS 8 or Firefox. Edit: and OS X Yosemite.
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Sep 29, 2014 04:43
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rest in piss goddamn idiot fucker
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Sep 29, 2014 04:46
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apple has killed the gif. sad depressed cat has a reason to be sad and depressed. goodbye.
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Sep 29, 2014 04:51
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APNG and WEBM Sitting in a tree A tree called O-B-S-C-URITY
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Sep 29, 2014 04:51
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^ ^ ^ meep meep pity reply coming through ^ ^ ^
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Sep 29, 2014 04:52
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so is this in os x safari
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Sep 29, 2014 04:52
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cool now maybe preview, the only image viewer native on the mac, will display animated picutes lol jk
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Sep 29, 2014 04:52
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its about fuckin time apng became normal thanks, apple, again, for innovating in the face of haters
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Sep 29, 2014 04:57
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will apng let me omit all forms of length or # of frames???
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Sep 29, 2014 04:59
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theadder posted:so is this in os x safari it is poor response time pleasure kevin & poor pleasure etc etc
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Sep 29, 2014 05:00
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maybe this will mean we can finally make apngs in photoshop without extra plugins
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Sep 29, 2014 05:04
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if you use firefox you can look at apngs RIGHT NOW 
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Sep 29, 2014 05:05
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webm is better than apng
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Sep 29, 2014 05:06
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how is a 24-bit APNG with an 8-bit alpha channel not way bigger than the equivalent GIF?
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Sep 29, 2014 05:09
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Doc Block posted:how is a 24-bit APNG with an 8-bit alpha channel not way bigger than the equivalent GIF? gif did no compression at all, png does lossless compression?
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Sep 29, 2014 05:11
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Doc Block posted:APNG and WEBM
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Sep 29, 2014 05:11
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Sniep posted:gif did no compression at all, png does lossless compression? still gonna be huge
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Sep 29, 2014 05:15
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Sniep posted:gif did no compression at all, png does lossless compression? GIF does lossless compression. LZW compression or some poo poo, it's what all those Unisys patents were about back in the day.
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Sep 29, 2014 05:18
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Doc Block posted:how is a 24-bit APNG with an 8-bit alpha channel not way bigger than the equivalent GIF? png can do 8 bit images too, and with better compression (for anything other than very tiny + simple images). also, many of the huge gifs you see break down into blocks, each with their own palette. while clever, it is very inefficient.
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Sep 29, 2014 06:04
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get the hell on my snap chat: pleasure_kevin
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Sep 29, 2014 06:05
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here's what my face look like after gif is head: aha ah ah ah ah
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Sep 29, 2014 06:10
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apng is still gonna be way too big - webm is the way forward here
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Sep 29, 2014 06:17
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yes your cool embedded web em video shows that. very nice the animated video aspect of you post which i am watching in my browser.
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Sep 29, 2014 06:24
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rotor posted:apng is still gonna be way too big - webm is the way forward here rotor is right
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Sep 29, 2014 07:36
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PleasureKevin posted:yes your cool embedded web em video shows that. very nice the animated video aspect of you post which i am watching in my browser. thats a forums limitation, all modern browsers support webm
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Sep 29, 2014 07:36
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Sep 29, 2014 08:19
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Sep 29, 2014 08:30
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why r ppl complaining about big apng? the limit is going to be the hosting. equivalent files on gif and apng will be same size right but apng will allow better quality if persons is willing to host or download it right like u can get 100mb gifs now but no one does because that's ridiculous. this won't change because a better format is allowed although no doubt people will try
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Sep 29, 2014 08:52
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echinopsis posted:why r ppl hypothetically apng will be bigger lol a webm with 24 bit color is already 1% the size of the same gif
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Sep 29, 2014 13:41
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soft g
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Sep 29, 2014 13:54
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big deal, WMFs could animate your entire computer
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Sep 29, 2014 14:08
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echinopsis posted:equivalent files on gif and apng will be same size right no
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Sep 29, 2014 14:46
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ah-peen-jay
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Sep 29, 2014 15:17
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webm is obviously the winner but people aren't ready to declare google the winner of anything yet
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Sep 29, 2014 15:22
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lol. a bunch of lovely browsers invented a non-standard image format hack instead of fixing their lovely gif support
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Sep 29, 2014 15:37
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Widdiful posted:soft g same except hard G the creator of PNG says it's pronounced "ping" lol
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Sep 29, 2014 15:39
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we wouldn't want to imping on people's established pronunciation
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Sep 29, 2014 15:45
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Shaggar posted:lol. a bunch of lovely browsers invented a non-standard image format hack instead of fixing their lovely gif support gif is dead and should've been years ago shaggar, sorry
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Sep 29, 2014 15:47
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Sniep posted:thanks, firefox, again, for innovating in the face of haters
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Sep 29, 2014 15:52
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also grats crapple on finally supporting a format from 10 years ago in your cutting edge browser
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