On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 23:55 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > You mean "compliance" with Mozilla's own "standards" such as APNG which > require a bundled hacked version of a system library to support? Kevin, you keep bringing up APNG, so let me address that one. I know the story because the Mozilla implementation was originally written by a former student, Andrew Smith. The decision to back PNG and fork libpng was not made lightly -- it's a significant maintenance burden for Mozilla. APNG was created to fill a void -- there was a need for a modern animated format with two qualities: it needed to be lightweight and backward-compatible (degrade gracefully). After nearly a year of discussion and consultation, the PNG group decided not to back it; Mozilla gave it further thought and decided they needed it. It has since been implemented by other browsers (such as Opera) and used in other applications (such as WorldDMB, see ESTI TS 101 499 V2.2.1). The alternative, MNG, is a heavy spec that offers no graceful degradation for older browsers. It's been around for years, but is almost never used. If it was a lighter spec, surely we'd be using it for animated cursors and throbbers by now. -Chris -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
