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Re:PNG Is Back by qingcharles on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @12:45PM (#44379316)
Almost nowhere that supports uploading GIFs supports APNG or animated WEBP. The back end support is so low it's close to zero. Which is really frustrating.
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Re:PNG Is Back by extraduder_ire on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @01:12PM (#44379647)
Do you mean services that reencode gif files to webm/mp4? apng just works everywhere that png works, and will remain animated as long as it's not re-encoded.

You can even have one frame that gets shown if and only if animation is not supported.

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Re:PNG Is Back by qingcharles on Thursday June 26, 2025 @03:17AM (#44384999)
Yes, most places only show the first frame. They ignore the animation, sadly. Even while accepting GIFs.
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Re:PNG Is Back by extraduder_ire on Friday June 27, 2025 @06:03PM (#44400674)
That's not the first frame, it's the fallback image that png decoders which are unaware of apng decode.

It is never shown by compliant apng decoders. You can make it the first frame of the animation, or any other image you want. e.g. some text saying "APNG unsupported"

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