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From: Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.org>
To: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
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Subject: Re: docs/31109: replace gif images w/ png ones due to patent license
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On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 12:03:35AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> Tom Hukins wrote:
> > PNG itself doesn't support animation, but MNG can be used for this and
> > is supported by modern Web browsers as is PNG.
> 
> what do you call "modern Web browsers" ?

I was thinking of version 5+ of all major Web browsers.  However, it
appears that only Mozilla/Netscape6 and Konqueror have MNG support.
That means MSIE and Opera are missing out of the major browsers.

So, it seems that using MNG on the Web is still a few years off. :-(

> also, how do you generate MNG animated images from PNG images ?
> what is the magic command ?

A quick Google search brought up
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngapcv.html which claims that
ImageMagick can do this.

Tom

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