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Link Mauve
“17:01:56 Zash> That was apparently a PNG. How the heck is it animated?”, it is APNG, a PNG file with additional chunks from the first frame’s iDAT representing the other frames.
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Link Mauve
Upstream libpng rejected this change, on the ground that their format is solely for still images, but that didn’t stop browsers from vendoring a fork.
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Link Mauve
moparisthebest, AVIF is the current cool one. :p
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Link Mauve
s/iDAT/IDAT/ sorry.
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mjk
Re: hearts, the above examples clearly illustrate that you can send those using xmpp. Therefore, if you're unable to do so, means you just don't have a heart
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moparisthebest
Link Mauve: ah thanks, well clearly no widespread AVIF support is the next single thing holding XMPP back from widespread adoption
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Link Mauve
Most XMPP clients already support AVIF.
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Link Mauve
At least the ones on Linux, which use gdk-pixbuf.
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Link Mauve
Even those on Haiku do support it.