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Opera adds Animated PNG support

Published: September 17th, 2007
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Opera logoThe latest Opera 9.5 development build has added support for animated PNG images, an extension to the popular PNG format that allows better animations with partial transparency and a much larger color palette. APNG originally was proposed a few years ago by Mozilla’s Vladimir Vukicevik and Stuart Parmenter, and implemented for Firefox 3 by Andrew Smith.

It’s definitely an important recognition to the format’s merits and potential and good news for web developers`and user. Let’s hope Internet Explorer and Safari jump aboard soon for a better, prettier web.

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  1. 1. Robert
    September 17th, 2007 at 10:56 pm

    I will venture a huge guess and say that IE will not be jumping aboard anytime soon.

    But, it is nice to an alternative to animated gif moving forward.

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  2. 2. Serdelll
    September 21st, 2007 at 6:52 pm

    create Opera tag/category, plizzzz

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  3. 3. Anthony
    September 12th, 2008 at 10:19 am

    Can’t believe that animated PNG’s havn’t been around for years. Not saying that GIF’s can’t look ok, but come on, try put one over a gradiated background and see how good it looks then. Why don’t they just add this to browsers from day1, what’s the big deal. I love PNG, long live semi-transparent edges.

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