In my last commercial project 2 month ago I used APNG in the iconography of my Firefox Add-on.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016, 20:56 Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 6:14 AM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> > wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:37 AM, Mike Lawther <mikelawt...@chromium.org> > wrote: > >> I'm testing the water here :) Is this at all likely to fly? > > > > I think the problem with APNG, as opposed to other image formats, > > e.g., WebP, is that we already support it. If we added APNG to our > > Accept header now, and developers would start relying on that, users > > that haven't updated yet or are on Firefox ESR would suddenly get a > > worse experience in Firefox. That is not a great incentive. > > It doesn't seem likely to me that developers would knowingly drop > support for some set of users that they already support. > > It seems much more likely that some set of developers currently don't > bother supporting APNG in firefox, either because they worry that it's > a browser-specific dead-end technology, or because they feel that > there's not enough firefox users that it's worth their time, or > because it's too much of a pain to support due to lack of Accept > header. > > The question to me is how large this latter group is, and if it's > large enough that it warrants adding the header. > > / Jonas > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
