Animated PNG Support (NOT MNG!)
Posted: 2013-04-24T23:57:12-07:00
I've been trying to create animated PNG files but have had to resort to using 3rd party tools (apngasm). It is my understanding that APNG is not supported because it is not a standard that is approved by the PNG group, which has chosen to reject APNG in favor of their own standard MNG. The problem is almost nothing in general use supports MNG wheras many things support APNG and, if the application does not support animation natively APNG gracefully degrades to just show the first frame as a standard PNG.
Personally I could care less about what the PNG group thinks of Mozilla APNG. I want a viable solution to animated PNG and MNG is not it. I am however left with the question of weather or not the ImageMagick developers would choose to reject non-standard open formats reguarless of common use? If patches were submitted to allow support for APNG would they be rejected on the grounds of APNG not being an "accepted" standard?
Personally I could care less about what the PNG group thinks of Mozilla APNG. I want a viable solution to animated PNG and MNG is not it. I am however left with the question of weather or not the ImageMagick developers would choose to reject non-standard open formats reguarless of common use? If patches were submitted to allow support for APNG would they be rejected on the grounds of APNG not being an "accepted" standard?
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