iOS 8 Safari Supports Animated PNG Images

[ArtOfWarfare]

A beach ball is too skeuomorphic, gotta be a monochromatic jumping

Needs multiple layers of frosted glass panes.

 

[Parasprite]

Great, something else Preview won't support.

I haven't tried it, but apparently on Yosemite Preview APNG comes up the same way GIF does (all the images in the file split up).

 

[LastMac]

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.

APNG had two engines support most of the time (started as Firefox and Opera, now it's Firefox and Safari)

There are plenty of one-engine formats:
https://twitter.com/domenic/status/513454157886681089

 

[johnny5k]

(A)PNG has a bit of a leg up considering it has a large user base already, is easily recognizable, and is widely supported. Even if the browser can't animate the file, it will automatically fall back to just displaying the first frame.

apng would fall back to the first frame in IE, but that would mean sending a huge file for a small still image. We're better off sending a static image or a lower-quality animated gif to IE. Kinda feels like IE6 all over again.

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Technically we could start supporting apng and webp animated graphics right now, using javascript to choose between the two on the fly. It's a pain, and it's far from the ideal of having a single format (similar to the <video> issue), but just imagine a cat jumping away from an explosion *IN HD*

 

[iBreatheApple]

iOS doesn't even play animated .gifs outside safari. half-baked OS...

Incorrect. The messages app plays them just fine.

 

[verniesgarden]

Someone call the Beach Boys and ask them if they will appear at the October Yosemite launch.

Only if we get an album with the update

 

[mdriftmeyer]

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With the release of iOS 8, Safari has gained the ability to display Animated PNGs (APNGs). Originally proposed in 2004 as a replacement to animated GIF images, APNGs offers more color and transparency support over GIFs. The APNG specification, however, was rejected by the PNG group in 2007, so support for the format has been rather limited. In fact, the format has been declared dead due to the lack of official adoption. Firefox was the only major browser that provided standard support for APNG, until iOS 8.

The beach ball image in this article is animated when viewed in iOS 8 or Firefox. Edit: and OS X Yosemite.

Thanks Parasprite

Article Link: iOS 8 Safari Supports Animated PNG Images

APNG was rejected as it competes directly with LibPNG's on MNG format.

Perhaps Apple will push for a merging of the APNG/MNG into LibPNG now that APNG will have hundreds of millions of new users.

WebP is garbage that competes against ISO JPEG-2000. Apple won't support it nor should they do so. Camera vendors have zero interest in it when adding it to encode/decode on their embedded sensors/dsps.

 

[attila]

At least we are moving away from the decades old GIF format (which the kids, somehow, think is state-of-the-art)

 

[LastMac]

APNG was rejected as it competes directly with LibPNG's on MNG format.

Perhaps Apple will push for a merging of the APNG/MNG into LibPNG now that APNG will have hundreds of millions of new users.

libpng is a reference implementation for PNG format. I'm not sure it needs to support animation. Anyway, it's possible to decode APNG with vanilla libpng, so it's not that important.

WebP is garbage that competes against ISO JPEG-2000. Apple won't support it nor should they do so. Camera vendors have zero interest in it when adding it to encode/decode on their embedded sensors/dsps.

Format wars are just so stupid. Browser makers should create a group to develop a new format together and then push it to all browsers at the same time. Maybe invite camera vendors too.

 

[alphatigerdzn]

Blank Field

But does it blink...

 

[Liberty.]

They should start supporting WEBM first.

 

[nostaws]

Said by a famous software developer like you it doesn't sound so idiotic. Yes I'm sarcastic.

Hey! I am a famous programmer. I made this really cool xml thingy, to reply to email users when they filled out a web form once.

 

[Parasprite]

At least we are moving away from the decades old GIF format (which the kids, somehow, think is state-of-the-art)

...sorry I couldn't resist

 

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