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A new PNG spec

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625 points bluedel | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 13:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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albert_e ◴[25 Jun 25 05:09 UTC] No.44373786[source]▶
So animated GIFs can be replaced by Animated PNGs with alpha blending with transparent backgrounds and lossless compression! Some nostalgia from 2000s websites can be revived and relived :)

Curious if Animated SVGs are also a thing. I remember seeing some Javascript based SVG animations (it was a animated chatbot avatar) - but not sure if there is any standard framework.

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andsoitis ◴[25 Jun 25 05:14 UTC] No.44373806[source]▶
> Curious if Animated SVGs are also a thing.

Yes. Relevant animation elements:

• <set>

• <animate>

• <animateTransform>

• <animateMotion>

See https://www.w3schools.com/graphics/svg_animation.asp

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mattigames ◴[25 Jun 25 05:37 UTC] No.44373932[source]▶
Overshadowed by CSS animations for almost all use cases.
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lawik ◴[25 Jun 25 05:54 UTC] No.44374011[source]▶
But animated gradient outlines on text is the only use-case I care about.
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mattigames ◴[25 Jun 25 11:18 UTC] No.44375962[source]▶
"Use case" is written without hyphen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_case
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1. fkyoureadthedoc ◴[25 Jun 25 13:25 UTC] No.44377078[source]▶
I have to differentiate myself from LLMs by using words wrong though