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October 1, 2006, there will be no more worldwide patent impediments to using the GIF format for pictures.
People making their own gaudy animation software for MySpace users heave a global sigh of relief :)
User Friendly had an interesting take on this on Sunday:
*laugh* I wonder if the UserFriendly folks have had the date marked in their calendar for a while.
Using PNG’s still going to be a badge of honour for a while, and it still has, well, better colour resolution.
They should have come up with an animation format for PNG sooner rather than later, though. APNG sounds like a better tack than the previous one (APNG would appear as a still frame to non-animation-aware-but-still-PNG-supporting browsers), but it’ll be a pretty long acceptance arc now.