Comment on PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation
otacon239@lemmy.world 8 months agoYeah, this was my first thought. How many slightly older, no-longer-being-updated pieces of software will fail to open the new version? Hopefully it’s built in a way that it just falls back to legacy and ignores the extra information so you can at least load the file.
Popular photo and video editing apps like Photoshop, DaVinci Resolve, and Avid Media Composer already support it, alongside Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. Apple’s iOS and macOS also work with the new file standard.
This is all the article mentions. I hope you’re right about the backwards compatibility.
I remember the Wild West Web days when it was a toss up seeing if animated Gifs, transparencies in images, or the specific hexadecimal for your personal shade of purple you created would render properly between browsers.
Ooh, that was the coaster company, I remember them.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I mean, that’s already how animated .gifs work. If somehow you manage to load one into a viewer that doesn’t support the animation functionality it will at least dutifully display the first frame.
How the hell you would manage to do that in this day and age escapes me, but there were a fair few years in the early '90s where you might run into that sort of thing.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 8 months ago
One example is piefed unfortunately. Animated gifs as avatar or banner don't animate currently as far as I can tell.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Those are displayed in browser, right? The only reason that would be happening is if Piefeed is recompressing images and their code is not smart enough to identify an animated .gif and act accordingly.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 8 months ago
Yeah in browser. I should probably open an issue ticket if nobody else noticed yet.
awesomesauce309@midwest.social 8 months ago
Probably most notably the iOS photos app until like 2014