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Asked: 2026-05-13T12:46:23+00:00

Is animated PNG, whether APNG or MNG about to get cross browser soon? Does

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Is animated PNG, whether APNG or MNG about to get cross browser soon? Does anyone know their status? Is Webkit or IE considering supporting them?

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  1. Editorial Team

    MNG is a lost cause. Forget it.

    You can use APNG on browsers that support it, and use workarounds for other browsers: http://ajaxian.com/archives/apng-class-get-apng-going-on-all-browsers

    On APNG in Webkit:

    —— Comment #1 From Mark Rowe (bdash) 2008-01-26 11:09:57 PST ——-
    WebKit uses the platform’s underlying image libraries for format support, so
    APNG would need to be implemented there for WebKit to decode it. This would
    require ImageIO on Mac/Windows to support it (), and
    QImage for Qt. Only the Gtk and wx ports make use of the bare basic image
    decoders in the WebKit source tree.

    The Chromium issue doesn’t have a comment to a similar effect, it appears they use their own decoder, so getting them to support APNG should be easier.

    Can’t say anything about IE, since they’re not commenting much on their plans, but I can imagine they have more important things to fix/implement first…

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