Comment by Dwedit
1 day ago
Interesting that people are making hacks of PNG to do animations, yet there's also APNG sitting over there saying "Hey I exist!"
1 day ago
Interesting that people are making hacks of PNG to do animations, yet there's also APNG sitting over there saying "Hey I exist!"
You don't even need a hack, there's built-in support for this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_JPEG
I've been here screaming "Motion JPEG EXISTS and is well supported in browsers" the entire time those gif hacks were popular. I've built a bunch of cool stuff with it.
https://github.com/donatj/mjpeg-php/blob/master/mjpeg.php
https://github.com/donatj/imgboard/blob/master/main.go
The PHP example here is an illustration of how easy it is to pull off, and the Go example is part of a JavaScript-free multiuser drawing board.
We even have proper video codecs like h264!
Sure, but most sites strip the animation out of APNGs while still allowing GIFs, which is frustrating.