[webkit-efl] APNG support?

[Gyuyoung Kim]

Hello Max,

If Safari is going to support it, I do not oppose to enable it on EFL port
as an experimental feature.

Gyuyoung.

On Thursday, August 14, 2014, Max Stepin <newstop at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, I understand.
>
> I don't think Mozilla will adopt WebP anytime soon: it's
> compression/quality is not significantly better over JPEG.
>
> Thanks.
> Max.
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 5:30 AM, ryuan Choi <ryuan.choi at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ryuan.choi at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> IMHO, it looks not critical issue to support apng on the Efl port,
>> because ewebkit is not widely used and I didn't have any requirement(apng
>> is also not widely used.) about it but your patch is small enough about
>> consideration of maintaining cost.
>>
>> In your screenshot,
>> you looks using e.
>>
>> so, I think that we have one user about apng requirement.
>>
>> BTW,
>> I am not sure whether chrome will support apng without using extension.
>> Do you know whether mozila support webp, now?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Ryuan choi
>> Well, it's not a format by itself, just a simple extension over PNG,
>> which is allowed by PNG specs. It follows the rules in that sense. First
>> frame is regular PNG, so creating thumbnails works fine already, with
>> existing software.
>>
>> Chromuim doesn't support it yet, but I sent them a similar patch too.
>> It's one of the top requested features by Chromuim users.
>>
>> It's supported by Firefox since 2008.
>> Safari will support it too, as soon as Yosemite and iOS8 are out, so it's
>> a good time to get it into WebKit as well.
>>
>> There are plenty of APNG files already on the internet, deviantart.com
>> alone reports 600+ results.
>>
>> It's very simple, and most of the decoding work is done by libpng anyway.
>> My patch is pretty small, it only extends the functionality of existing PNG
>> decoder a little bit.
>>
>> PNG compression vs GIF is another benefit:
>> http://littlesvr.ca/apng/gif_apng_webp5.html
>> Smaller files for the same content means faster web for everybody.
>>
>> Max.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Gyuyoung Kim <gyuyoung.kim at webkit.org
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gyuyoung.kim at webkit.org');>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Max,
>>>
>>> Is APNG standard image format ? Or, does Chromium supports it as well ?
>>>
>>> To be honest, I don't know what is benefit when EFL port supports the
>>> format.
>>>
>>> Gyuyoung.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Max Stepin <newstop at gmail.com
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','newstop at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello EFL.
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for a WebKit port that would "adopt" my apng support code:
>>>> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17022
>>>>
>>>> Here's how it looks:
>>>> http://i.imgur.com/NeLdhzQ.png
>>>>
>>>> The code is under ENABLE(APNG) so to make it into WebKit,
>>>> at least one port would need to agree to use it.
>>>>
>>>> Looking forward to your comments.
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
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