Output Stream of Consciousness - Latest Comments on GIF is Free at Last! http://blogs.nimblebrain.net/index.php?blog=2&disp=comments en-CA http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Nimble [Member] in response to: GIF is Free at Last! Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:10:17 +0000 nimble [Member] c63@http://blogs.nimblebrain.net/ <p>*laugh* I wonder if the UserFriendly folks have had the date marked in their calendar for a while.</p> <p>Using PNG&#8217;s still going to be a badge of honour for a while, and it still has, well, better colour resolution.</p> <p>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&#8217;ll be a pretty long acceptance arc now.</p> *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.

]]> http://blogs.nimblebrain.net/index.php/gif_is_free_at_last?blog=2#c63 Adam [Member] in response to: GIF is Free at Last! Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:30:05 +0000 adam [Member] c62@http://blogs.nimblebrain.net/ <p>User Friendly had an interesting take on this on Sunday:</p> <p><a href="http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20061001" rel="nofollow">http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20061001</a></p> User Friendly had an interesting take on this on Sunday:

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20061001

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