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PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation
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But is it backwards compatible with an old version that can't be updated?
Yeah, this was my first thought. How many slightly older, no-longer-being-updated pieces of software will fail to open the new version? Hopefully it’s built in a way that it just falls back to legacy and ignores the extra information so you can at least load the file.
This is all the article mentions. I hope you’re right about the backwards compatibility.
I remember the Wild West Web days when it was a toss up seeing if animated Gifs, transparencies in images, or the specific hexadecimal for your personal shade of purple you created would render properly between browsers.
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Lies! That gif is sped up 2000%!
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LOL, I heard that gif. Timed it in my mind, on the money OP.
Ooh, that was the coaster company, I remember them.