![]() I just discovered that Apple's Safari browser supports APNGs now as well, and also Chromium (which Chrome is based on). ![]() Note the vast improvement in quality (due to being able to use millions of colors as opposed to the 256 color maximum which GIFs are capable of) as well the smaller file sizes.Īnyhow, the fact is that Firefox has always supported APNGs. Here are a couple of comparisons between GIFs and APNGs with transparency. The other reason is that they can be more cleanly implemented (without a player/controls) and with transparency as well, which APNGs particularly shine at. ![]() In my opinion the reason is that videos are loaded on demand while animated GIFs (yes and APNGs too!) are loaded with the page and play without interaction. Maybe we should ponder on why that reality yet exists. Looking at Tumblr, IMGUR, Meme Center, GIPHY and many other extremely popular internet forums proves without any hint of doubt that animated GIFs are far from dead. To paraphrase a comment from above: What percent of human population know there are animated GIFs and of the percentage of the world population what percent think animated GIFs are important for mankind?Īnimated GIFs ought to be dead as well due to the above reasoning (why don't those millions of people making animated GIFs just make videos instead right?) but they are not dead at all. Instead of trying to tell people that what they want to do is stupid and trying to convince them to do some other thing - perhaps look into the issue a bit first? Some have spent some time here now telling everyone why the APNG format is dead but their logic and justifications are moot (and they are just plain wrong). Why not rather try to be cordial and helpful? That sort of response might be somewhat acceptable if they at least knew what they were talking about. Seems like a lot of those "answering" questions here on these forums have a bit of an attitude. ![]()
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