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Re:Using Standard HTML (1997) by judge2020 on Sunday January 19, 2020 @09:46AM (#22091670)
Maybe it's the ffmpeg apng muxer but it almost seems like gif does a better job a compression compared to apng, making apng only solve one problem (AFAIK): the color limitations. See this example: https://gist.github.com/judge2020/a78adb07ae60244a5660fb631f...
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Re:Using Standard HTML (1997) by wongarsu on Sunday January 19, 2020 @11:07AM (#22092097)
PNG has two (commonly used modes): 256 colors or true color. A 256 color PNG beats a GIF in compression, but for many images a 2^32 color PNG takes more space than a 256 color GIF. This holds true both for still images and animations.

This leads to a curious situation where PNG beats GIF at anything GIF can do, yet still disappoints people.

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