Me when I will meet the creator of webp:
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its so fuckign annoying developers have had 12 years to support it but STILL DON'T
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animated png has been around 15 years, it's well supported in browsers but I'm not sure I've ever seen an .apng in the wild.
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APNG doesn't have much of a use case. It's ridiculously inefficient compared to using a video for almost any use case. PNG isn't an efficient lossless image format and has aged really badly, especially compared to JPEG which held up really well for lossy photograph compression.
and yet here we are still using .gifs, which are a billion times worse
the appeal of it isnt to encode video. its to encode images with a bit of animation.
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Nearly everything people refer to as a GIF is a video made to act like a traditional animated GIF. PNG itself is only passable at compressing pixel art with few colors. Most efficient way to use PNG with modern browsers is with compression disabled: thejh.net/written-stuff/.
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