Using Firefox 3 beta? Only you can see the animation.

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The PNG format has an extension to its specification known as APNG which is similar the MNG format, but better. If you are viewing this post in Firefox 3 beta, you’ll see an animation. If you aren’t using it, you’ll simply see a static frame. This is meant to be a replacement for the gif animated format and is completely open source.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2348/2187394259_e9af2af8ef_o.png

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wow… it goes round… and round… and round… and round :smiley:

love it :slight_smile:
and haha to all the lesser browsers :wink:

//charliemcf

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I also use Firefox 3.

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yeah. The css suport, the box model…sadly all that I have to keep the fights and underpowered css for ie 6…(when will it dissapear for the masses…grr, something as important as a .whatEver input [type=“submit”] {…} you can’t do in ie6… no png transparency,(I also do the art, and that tiny crap is so non convenient…) and a bazillion more things…that and its rendering bugs, its many many bugs, and its even more bugs…While I love using windows, can’t stand that browser, as a web making sufferer I am…)

Am salivating for ff 3…didn’t know was out already…

btw, I know well mng, have several tools for it as use for my game development… APNG better than mng…? Will check it…

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whee! i see the foxy spinning :smiley:

will gimp and blender have support for apng? =)

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meantime, looks like there’s a firefox addon for that… :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5519

edit: you would make your render as PNGs, surely as RGBA to keep the alpha

Havent tried.

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Mozilla is also adding SMIL support, although I doubt it will be ready for the initial FF3 release. SMIL is animated SVGs. I wish that some of the GUI libraries would add support for SMIL. It would be kind of cool to have animated window icons.

Better examples using alpha transparency.
http://people.mozilla.com/%7Edolske/blogimg/spinfox.png
http://people.mozilla.com/%7Edolske/apng/chompy2.png

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Grrr! I just downloaded FF3 beta2 to try this out and it crashes every single time as soon as I open it. :frowning: I’m typing this from my mom’s computer and now I’m going to have to re-download FF2 and walk it over to my machine on a USB key. sigh Guess I’ll just have to wait for the stable release.

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APNG works on opera 9.5 beta also.

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Wow, opera render’s APNGs really nicely…FF is probably the same anyway…Is there a way to compile an APNG animations in linux? I don’t think blender supports it atm.

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I…don’t fully understand…I mean…APNG Edit which I mentioned is a firefox extension…It should be able to put in your Linux, isn’t it ? As extensions work in FF in linux as well…(but i haven’t tried this addon…) :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5519

I think from same person here’s an online assmebler… :
http://www.littlesvr.ca/apng/assembler/assembler.php

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Thanks for that link. I just didn’t want to use Firefox to make apngs.

Is there a way of running APNG Edit on it’s own, without having to open firefox first? Maybe this can be done using xulrunner?

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i dunno…but it’s probably a matter of time that Imagemagick or ffmpeg end up being able to output an APNG from whatever the bunch of pngs…which could possibly rock… For now, I have no probs using ffox for that but…Have you checked if the website of the author of teh assemble has as well an open sourced library for this all? I simply didnt look at, I myself use old MNG for production work(games), and works…But this new thing sounds very cool.

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Well, this finally convinced me to try the beta. I can’t say I had a first good impression of it though – it autorefreshed on me while I was hacking at the 'pedia :stuck_out_tongue: