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iOS 8 Safari Supports Animated PNG Images
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Not surprising, considering that browsers on iOS are merely Safari in disguise.
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A beach ball is too skeuomorphic, gotta be a monochromatic jumping
I'm on OS X Tiger and the beachball is bouncing. I think OS X has supported this for a while.
Why APNG and not WebP FFS?
I mean, APNG wouldn't be the end of the world if it got universal adoption, but WebP would have been a lot easier.
I mean, APNG wouldn't be the end of the world if it got universal adoption, but WebP would have been a lot easier.
I don't think infrastructure means what you think it does. Luckily you can just hold your finger on it if you are using your phone and hit define.
Any Mac graphics programs that allow us to create Animated PNGs already? Does Photoshop?
I would imagine GraphicConverter might . since that's an old Mac classic app with a Swiss-army-knife outlook to doing things.
Safari on iOS is a fine browser but it's stuff like this that give it a reputation of 'the Internet Explorer of the mobile web.'
IE on the desktop didn't care about following standards and since it was the dominant browser people had to write webpages to work with whatever IE liked (or not quite whatever it didn't like).
This APNG isn't a standards issue, so it's not as big of a deal as other stuff that Safari does different. I think in this case Apple puts a lot of effort into making their LCD panels' colors accurate and an APNG allowed you to have that animation but in a much richer (and more accurate) color palette vs gif. APNG files are probably much larger than the gif version of the same animation. Back when APNG was rejected broadband wasn't as pervasive and mobile Internet was in the dark ages, so a lot has changed. Maybe Apple using APNG will resurrect the format.. Though ofcourse websites have to serve that up in place of gifts.
IE on the desktop didn't care about following standards and since it was the dominant browser people had to write webpages to work with whatever IE liked (or not quite whatever it didn't like).
This APNG isn't a standards issue, so it's not as big of a deal as other stuff that Safari does different. I think in this case Apple puts a lot of effort into making their LCD panels' colors accurate and an APNG allowed you to have that animation but in a much richer (and more accurate) color palette vs gif. APNG files are probably much larger than the gif version of the same animation. Back when APNG was rejected broadband wasn't as pervasive and mobile Internet was in the dark ages, so a lot has changed. Maybe Apple using APNG will resurrect the format.. Though ofcourse websites have to serve that up in place of gifts.
Why bother? Making a sprite animation using PNG was easy enough with CSS.
I feel like Apple may have ignored WebM just to spite Google/Android, since I believe Google was the one who started it.
I feel like Apple may have ignored WebM just to spite Google/Android, since I believe Google was the one who started it.
Not much with GUI, but there are some command-line tools:
http://littlesvr.ca/apng/
And online tools:
http://littlesvr.ca/apng/assembler/assembler.php
If the software industry followed this methodology of development, we simply wouldn't have any software.
If you want a bug-free phone, get a prepaid feature phone on Cricket.
Said by a famous software developer like you it doesn't sound so idiotic. Yes I'm sarcastic.
Or you could either get a case or not put a phone in your pants pocket while you sit.
Or both. >_>
Maybe Apple simply wants to use animated icons somewhere on OS level.
If so, then choosing existing simple lossless format with alpha channel would be a no-brainer.
That would make a small bit of sense, except UIImageViews have been able to have an array of images loaded into them (like sprites) for quite a while (possibly all the way back to the first version of the iPhone SDK? I know that I used them in a project that ran on iPhone OS 3... so long ago that it was still called iPhone OS and not yet iOS).
I guess maybe APNG can load faster (fewer distinct files that need to be accessed) plus less hassle managing all the files?
Yup, iOS 2.0 and later. Perhaps someday Apple is going to allow iOS apps to have live/updating icons like the Clock.app, although the new iOS 8 today extensions makes this sort of unnecessary.
No, but support in Safari and Chrome would push it over the line.
The issue is that APNG has *no* support elsewhere. It was as close to a dead format as can be until this.
We really don't want the video codec mess to extend to replacing GIFs.
Awesome. 10 years later, when the format is long since dead.
...and .webm's fill the imageboards. ...which iOS can't handle.
hell, iOS doesn't even play animated .gifs outside safari. half-baked OS...
...and .webm's fill the imageboards. ...which iOS can't handle.
hell, iOS doesn't even play animated .gifs outside safari. half-baked OS...
