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Re:Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG by dasfasf on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @09:46PM (#13873155)
Which makes the timing all the more inscrutable. AV1 is supposed to have its bitstream finalized this month. Why now, when WebM is so widespread and there are new formats on the horizon, resurrect APNG after neglecting it at the only time it was relevant?
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Re:Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG by robterrell on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @12:11AM (#13873752)
APNG is the format Apple is using for sticker packs in iMessage. I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess Google is ramping up to announce a sticker store for Allo... sticker pack devs could port them over without any effort.
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Re:Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG by aorth on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @03:23AM (#13874397)
What is a sticker pack and why do you need to buy them?
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Re:Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG by maxst on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @03:53AM (#13874508)
It's serious business.

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/06/line-270m-a-year-sticker-sa...

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Re:Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG by japano1se on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @03:48AM (#13874481)
Small pictures to put in chat clients, rather like large emoji. It seems pointless, but I've had friends complain about going from clients that support stickers back to text chats like irc.
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