Tony Bark to [email protected]English • 5 days agoPNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animationwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square107fedilinkarrow-up1809cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1809external-linkPNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animationwww.tomshardware.comTony Bark to [email protected]English • 5 days agomessage-square107fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish48•5 days agoThere were two different animated PNG extensions, MNG and APNG. Neither of them ever really caught on. I guess they’re hoping to do better by baking it into the core spec.
minus-squareDeebsterlinkfedilinkEnglish22•5 days agoAPNG is what they’re using in v3, so all many libraries need to do* is update that code for HDR. * surely that’s easy, right?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•5 days agoI mean, on a Linux system that’s not riddled with flatpak / snap / … You’d basically only need to update libpng and you’d be good.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•5 days agoYes. But if you live in the future, you have to wait for dozens of dozens of intermediate to do so! Great!
There were two different animated PNG extensions, MNG and APNG. Neither of them ever really caught on. I guess they’re hoping to do better by baking it into the core spec.
APNG is what they’re using in v3, so all many libraries need to do* is update that code for HDR.
* surely that’s easy, right?
I mean, on a Linux system that’s not riddled with flatpak / snap / … You’d basically only need to update libpng and you’d be good.
Yes. But if you live in the future, you have to wait for dozens of dozens of intermediate to do so! Great!