Animated PNG in Firefox 3
Date : 2008 01 25 Category : Tech & Development
Ajaxian
Firefox 3 has support for Animated PNG:
One of many new features added to Firefox 3 is the support of a new file format, the Animated PNG! Browsers have supported animated GIFs for more than a decade, but the GIF image format has a number of limitations and is overdue for replacement. The PNG image format is now widely accepted as a superior replacement for static GIF images, but for animated GIFs there has not yet been a clear successor. The new Animated PNG format (APNG) is a simple extension to PNG, making it superior for animations too.
-Justin Dolske
There are some fun examples, if you can fire up FF3:
3D Dolphin - January 24th, 2008 3D APNG’s - January 24th, 2008 Brendan Sera-Shriar - January 24th, 2008 Mozilla Labs - Justin Dolske - January 23rd, 2008 William Wong - January 23rd, 2008 Joanna Viera - January 23rd, 2008 Daniel Coltri - January 23rd, 2008Hopefully we don’t get too much abuse of animated images like we did when animated gifs came around.