Comment on PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation
nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 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.
Deebster@infosec.pub 3 days ago
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?
jonne@infosec.pub 3 days ago
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.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yes. But if you live in the future, you have to wait for dozens of dozens of intermediate to do so! Great!