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What Is The Future of PNG?

Posted by Hemos on from the life-of-its-own dept.

miladus writes "The GIF patent (held by Unisys) will expire on June 20. C|Net wonders whether that will also mean that PNG "will lose its original reason for being". Remember Burn All GIFs? " My hope would be that at this point PNG can stand on its own technical merits, rather then on ideological merits.

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  1. Animated PNGs? by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Does such a thing exist? Will it ever exist?

    The way I see it, if I have an image and it's only 8 bit I'll use a GIF, otherwise I'll use a JPG, unless it contains text that needs to be readable in which case I'll use PNG.

    Simple rule of thumb?

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