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A new PNG spec

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615 points bluedel | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 13:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.284s | 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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1. account42 ◴[26 Jun 25 09:22 UTC] No.44385628[source]▶
> So animated GIFs can be replaced by Animated PNGs with alpha blending with transparent backgrounds and lossless compression!

Not progressively though unless browsers add a new mime type for it which they did not bother to do with animated webp.