Tony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days agoPNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animationwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square112fedilinkarrow-up1824arrow-down13
arrow-up1821arrow-down1external-linkPNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animationwww.tomshardware.comTony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days agomessage-square112fedilink
minus-squareDeebster@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·28 days agoAPNG is what they’re using in v3, so all many libraries need to do* is update that code for HDR. * surely that’s easy, right?
minus-squarejonne@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·28 days agoI mean, on a Linux system that’s not riddled with flatpak / snap / … You’d basically only need to update libpng and you’d be good.
minus-squarecley_faye@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·28 days agoYes. But if you live in the future, you have to wait for dozens of dozens of intermediate to do so! Great!
APNG is what they’re using in v3, so all many libraries need to do* is update that code for HDR.
* surely that’s easy, right?
I mean, on a Linux system that’s not riddled with flatpak / snap / … You’d basically only need to update libpng and you’d be good.
Yes. But if you live in the future, you have to wait for dozens of dozens of intermediate to do so! Great!