Why hasn't a better animated image format been made yet?

[ultimamax]

From my limited understanding of gifs and video, video will recycle the color of a pixel if the frame before it had a similar color at that location. But gifs don't do that, so they load slower. And what's different about animated .pngs?

If I'm wrong about anything, please educate me. :P

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[Waru]

video actually does that?

i thought of that long ago and i didnt even

[Kingdaro]

pretty sure apng exists

might've misread OP

[Steve5452]

From my limited understanding of gifs and video, video will recycle the color of a pixel if the frame before it had a similar color at that location. But gifs don't do that, so they load slower.

Gifs are usually optimized to do this.
aPNG has much better transparency support. in gifs, a pixel is either completely opaque or completely transparent, 0 or 255. aPNG's can be from 0 to 255 transparency.

[ultimamax]

After a short amount of googling, my answer has been found:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/16n5tn/please_explain_this_to_me/c7xkhc0

Gifs are usually optimized to do this.
aPNG has much better transparency support. in gifs, a pixel is either completely opaque or completely transparent, 0 or 255. aPNG's can be from 0 to 255 transparency.

Is that it?

[Steve5452]

Here's the first frame of your avatar.



Here's the second


Here's the ninth because it's a good example.

[ultimamax]

Here's the first frame of your avatar.



Here's the second


Here's the ninth because it's a good example.

oh ok. i looked back at the reddit post and you are right. neat.

[dkamm65]

I wish gif would kindly forget right the hell off so apng can take over.

[DrenDran]

I wish gif would kindly forget right the hell off so apng can take over.

This

[dkamm65]

This

Like seriously. This isn't 1997 anymore. We can handle larger file sizes for animated images. If an image is gonna be 5+MB, it might as well have decent quality.

[PowerDag]

As far as I know, very few browsers support .apng format. Opera can do it, and Chrome has an add-on available for animated PNG support.

[Doomonkey]

But when I am designing webs and I want a two-color, indexed, blinking image gif is so awesome.

[DrenDran]

As far as I know, very few browsers support .apng format. Opera can do it, and Chrome has an add-on available for animated PNG support.

So does firefox.
It and chrome are the only two you really gotta focus on.

[Doomonkey]

So does firefox.
It and chrome are the only two you really gotta focus on.

But Opera is important too.

[dkamm65]

As far as I know, very few browsers support .apng format. Opera can do it, and Chrome has an add-on available for animated PNG support.

Exactly my problem.

But when I am designing webs and I want a two-color, indexed, blinking image gif is so awesome.

Then you can use a gif for that. But when people want the bleeding-edge-state-of-the-art technology like anti-aliasing and alpha we can use apng.