Re: PNG roots and farewell

> As for APNG, well, it was really easy to do that in a way that
> conformed to ISO-PNG and required no approval; it just required a
> private critical chunk, say ApNG, but no, that didn't happen.  Chris
> is the first person I've heard to state it is alive; I heard recently
> from an insider that the industry proponent had pretty much dropped
> it, and I can tell that *animated* GIF is still very much alive.  I
> like animated GIF; it is a simple, powerful and just works, I can
> re-implement it in PNG if I want, I just need the AgIF chunk.

APNG is coming back, definitely. Thanks to Apple, it already works in
iPhones and iPads, and not just in Safari:
https://github.com/tinify/iMessage-Panda-sticker

Also, the patch for Chromium is in "pretty good shape, targeting M58":
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=437662#c48

That will cover pretty much 100% of the mobile web, and 90% of the desktop web.

The thing is, APNG chunks are acTL, fcTL and fdAT, and it's too late
to rename them, it became de-facto standard at this point.

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