Opera adds Animated PNG support
The 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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Anthony
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.
Robert
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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