Tony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 25 days agoPNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animationwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square35linkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down10
arrow-up18arrow-down1external-linkPNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animationwww.tomshardware.comTony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 25 days agomessage-square35linkfedilink
minus-squarenyan@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 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.
minus-squareDeebster@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·25 days agoAPNG 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?
minus-squarejonne@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 days agoI 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.
There 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.
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?
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.