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by chrismorgan 2914 days ago
The primary casualty of using SVG animations is IE/Edge support; SMIL is not currently planned: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor....

It would be good to adjust the failure mode so that if SMIL is not supported then at least a meaningful frame (probably the last, though scrolling makes it difficult to decide!) is shown, rather than just a blank rectangle.
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swebs 2914 days ago
Jesus, it's 2018 and they still can't even figure out how to implement animated PNGs? Real browsers had this 10 years ago. What the hell is wrong with Microsoft? Are they really just so incompetent, or is there a more insidious business reason why they don't want more animated formats on the web?
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hutzlibu 2914 days ago
SMIL is something quite different and much more complex, than "animated PNGs"
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chatmasta 2911 days ago
Is complexity a reasonable excuse for one of the world’s largest corporations to forego a feature in their flagship browser that every other browser has implemented?
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swebs 2913 days ago
I know. I just saw APNG when scrolling down in that list and was surprised to see it still not figured out.
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chrismorgan 2913 days ago
Firefox had (and pioneered) APNG ten years ago. Safari added APNG support four years ago. Chrome only got APNG just over a year ago.
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