(Apparently managed to miss the list with my reply. Whoops.) On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 07:35 -0500, James Bursa wrote: > On Wednesday 17 September 2008, you wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 19:26 -0500, James Bursa wrote: > > > In summary I don't see where the enthusiasm for disabling a fully working > > > and useful feature is coming from. > > Because MNG is obsolete in favour of APNG, which has actually been > > implemented in browsers that more than a rounding error's worth of > > people use? > > > > There's no legacy base of websites that'd stop working if it were > > removed, as nobody used it in the first place, so it's a great > > candidate for culling. (Ergo: not actually a "useful feature".) > It is not that simple, for example: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.png.general/1688/
I'm aware of that, but it ultimately doesn't matter. Mildly popular browsers have implemented APNG, and not MNG (to the extent of removing it from Mozilla), so APNG stands infinitely more chance of being used than MNG. It may also avoid MNG's stillbirth by degrading gracefully in IE. > Please don't call NetSurf a rounding error. My point is that the sum of MNG-supporting browser share is < 1%, without pegging any actual number on it, thus nobody is ever going to use it. This makes it dead weight, which is bad for the reasons Rob highlights. As for libpng vs libmng, AFAIK, libpng has patches for APNG support; libmng does not. -- | Philip Boulain PhD student | The world can only really be changed | | IAM, ECS, Uni of Southampton | one piece at a time. The art is | | http://zepler.net/~lionsphil | picking that piece. --Tim Berners-Lee |
