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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: 0.206s | 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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riffraff ◴[25 Jun 25 05:22 UTC] No.44373868[source]▶
I was under the impression many gifs these days are actually served as soundless videos, as those basically compress better.

Can animated PNG beat av1 or whatever?

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bawolff ◴[25 Jun 25 10:18 UTC] No.44375571[source]▶
Its also because people like to "pause" animations, and that is not really an option with apng & gif.
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bigfishrunning ◴[25 Jun 25 14:48 UTC] No.44377985[source]▶
why not? that's up to the program displaying the animation, not the animation itself -- i'm sure a pausable gif or apng display program is possible
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1. account42 ◴[26 Jun 25 09:29 UTC] No.44385668[source]▶
Browsers used to support pausing GIFs by pressing the escape key.