Re: APNG and Accept-Encoding

[maxstepin]

Here's interesting live example, this website provides lots of animated cursors 
to download, and they show them online as APNGs in Firefox and Safari, and as 
GIFs in other browsers. Cursor's ANI format is 32bit and animated, but it's not 
supported by browsers, so they have to convert.

One such set:
http://www.rw-designer.com/cursor-set/blue-white-reloaded

I think they decide server-side.

Max.
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Re: APNG and Accept-Encoding

[maxstepin]

What if, in the future:
1. Safari fully supports  
2. This bug lands https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1160200

Then it would be possible for web-developers to just use this, right?





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Re: APNG and Accept-Encoding

[maxstepin]

I think now, in 2010s most of internet content is made by regular users, not 
webdevs. Can we look at the problem from their perspective? Of course, CDNs and 
webdevs care about MIME types and Accept headers, but regular users know 
nothing about that and they've been happily posting apngs to Tumblr and 
DeviantArt for years now:

http://patakk.tumblr.com/post/42213491263 
http://kokotea.deviantart.com/art/AT-kia-animated-PNG-519985556
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Lifealope-293147967
http://apngden.tumblr.com/

They simply tell their visitors: "you can use Firefox, or click here for APNG 
extension for Chrome, or click here for the GIF version". Judging by the 
comments, viewers seems to figure it out quickly.

So what would happen if APNG support lands into Chrome "as is" and only IE/Edge 
is left out? These artistic types would keep posting that stuff, only a bit 
more often. What about CDNs and webdevs of big websites? Maybe a few of them 
would UA-sniff IE/Edge, but most won't bother they'll keep using GIFs. A few 
might switch to APNG exclusively, but that's hard to predict.

I think the net effect would be slightly positive.

And if Edge devs would follow soon enough, the whole thing could be moot, 
quickly. Three-way negotiations seems harder to achieve than convincing just 
one more player.

Max.
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