[valarauca1]

This is a very big moment for WebM. I feel 4chan has become the 'porn' industry of the internet. With VHS vs Betamax the largely deciding factor was which standard porn supported (this was again to a lesser extent with bluray).

The general lack of adoption of animated png's is often pointed squarely on 4chan. Since it generated most of the web's viral funny content. And since most of it was in .gif, who needs to support .apng?

Hopefully we will see the opposite with WebM. More general funny content, more drive for it to be adopted on sites like reddit (which already to some extent uses gifcat on some subs), and imgur. Which will snowball its general adoption.

[moot]

> I feel 4chan has become the 'porn' industry of the internet.

This is the most flattering thing I've ever read about 4chan.

[heydenberk]

It's kind of hilarious how much easier it is to summon moot on HN than on, say, 4chan.

[fosap]

HN is pseudonymous, 4chan is mostly anonymous. Probably moot simply isn't a tripfag.

[gcb0]

Porn industry? Isn't 4Chan an ocean of something or another?

[aspensmonster]

I'd say Google has its own share of responsibility for the lack of adoption of APNGs. Chromium doesn't support them out of the box.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

I suppose because that requires using libapng instead of libpng, maybe?

[maxst]

APNG support can be implemented on top of regular libpng. I have the working code.

[valarauca1]

You really shouldn't blame google, but blame KHTML (who's code base was forked to develop Webkit, and then Blink). KHTML didn't move to support apng until 2010-2011 which was a few years after the webkit fork.

[andyroid]

So to get this straight, we should blame the KHTML devs for adding a feature after Google forked it's code? While not blaming Google for never adding the feature?

[mpyne]

uh hwat?

APNG was still years away when Webkit was forked from KHTML. Webkit was so long ago that Firefox didn't exist, nor did "Mozilla Firebird", and IIRC nor did Phoenix.

[threeseed]

When is this "Porn decides video formats" argument going to die ?

H.264 versus WebM wasn't decided by Porn. BluRay versus HD-DVD wasn't either.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

I doubt that it really won the VHS/BetaMax war either.

[Natriceus]

I just saw a one-minute porn WebM on /gif/. This is unbelievably great.