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by summerlight 919 days ago
What does it exactly mean by "100% backward compatible"? It looks like some optimizations could be backported to the existing encoder/decoder without breaking the format but this is more of an optimization. My impression is that this is backward compatible in a way similar to APNG (it will return some reasonable images if the file is using a new functionality), but I'm not sure if I understand it correctly.