No more crappy gifs, APNG!

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.

Comments

KaBob799 13 years, 7 months ago

Quote:
who takes 11 months to reply to something? <_<
and chooses to bump it on the activity feed lol

DesertFox 13 years, 7 months ago

A lonely, attention-starved zombie D:

Zaron 13 years, 7 months ago

I like APNG, but apparently Chrome doesn't support it, and Firefox had so many issues on me that… well, I switched to Chrome. Some Flash-related memory leak business that was getting fixed way too slowly was absolutely crippling my whole system, so I ditched it.

Amazed Chrome's not supporting this stuff, though?

Juju 13 years, 7 months ago

Google will probably get round to it.

sirxemic 13 years, 7 months ago

I think 'Don't show on feed' should be checked by default… brb…

EDIT: nvm, it is checked by default unless the latest comment was posted less than 2 weeks ago.

KaBob799 13 years, 7 months ago

APNG hasn't gained any new browser support since 2008. Browsers have been pushing other formats like svg.

Castypher 13 years, 7 months ago

What the hell do you have on your avatar, Xemic?

Enkidu 13 years, 7 months ago

Whoops, my mistake, I didn't read that damned check box, I thought it was something else. But you know, I'm going to have it post again, just to vindicate myself.