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by KaoruAoiShiho 2507 days ago
Also apng. Time to retire gifs already.
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Hasn't apng been made obsolete by mp4 before it managed widespread adoption? Basically they were supposed to be easy like the old animated gifs, but developers dragged their heels on it so long that they forced people to adopt the full fat alternatives in the meantime.
They have different perf characteristics. I use apng a lot. There's a good place for them.
apng also supports transparency while h.264 doesn't.
It might happen! IE and Edge were the last holdouts and now MS is switching to Chromium.