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Posted by Enkidu on Sept. 13, 2009, 4:24 a.m.

If your browser currently supports APNG, you should have already noticed my animated banner and icon. If not please update to the latest version of Mozilla Firefox or another browser that supports APNGs.

APNGs are basically a collection of PNGs put together to make an animated file which are so much better than gifs because of this one thing:

Alpha transparency.

in action:

APNG

Crappy GIF

How it should look if you have Firefox 3 or Opera

In order to make APNG you will need to make the frames in PNG format, and then export them together using JapngEditor or another APNG editor.

Hopefully those crappy gif files fade away soon. XP.

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Josea 14 years, 8 months ago

@Toast and meow: Who are you to say what people deserve or not?

Toast 14 years, 8 months ago

…

Josea just lost his Internet.

sirxemic 14 years, 8 months ago

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gifs are more awesome. they only have 256 colors each, and it takes REAL skill to make nice and colorful images… also, it compresses better and you don't have 1MB banners… think of people who have slow modem on a 133Mhz pentium computer…

Actually, APNG compresses better than GIF, apparently. So shush, you!

Enkidu 14 years, 8 months ago

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APNG isnt supported by the people who made PNG, thats why its not widely supported enough to replace gif. The MNG is the proper animated png format.

None of anything I already have can play that. haha. I do see why it should be better as it was made by the creators but until its more widely supported I won't use it.

Juju 14 years, 6 months ago

PNG is an open format. It doesn't matter whether the "creators" invented APNG or not.

Alert Games 14 years, 6 months ago

Seems pretty useful for small images, but for your banner, for example, takes up a meg of space, and is not interactive. So it may be good for high quality animated image, but otherwise it would seem that flash may be more useful.

Enkidu 13 years, 7 months ago

I definitely see your point. However, I have… expensive tastes… so to speak, as well as a severe case of laziness, so I will not change it at the moment.

DesertFox 13 years, 7 months ago

Heh - I've always supported APNG as a format.

Also, ZOMBIE BLAWG!

Quietus 13 years, 7 months ago

who takes 11 months to reply to something? <_<

Ferret 13 years, 7 months ago

A zombie D:

No more crappy gifs, APNG!

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