[PNG] Third Edition is released!

Congratulations, everyone!
PNG Third Edition is now a W3C Recommendation <https://www.w3.org/TR/png-3/>
.

I appreciate all your hard work on it. It took a lot to dust off a
20-year-old spec and drum up enough interest across various industries to
make this happen. Without your expertise and effort, I don't think it would
have happened. I'm glad we accomplished this.


I wrote a post to announce PNG Third Edition's updates
<https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/>. Feel free to link it to
others if you want. I designed it to be very accessible, so an average
person could understand it. As such, I took some liberties like showing HDR
primaries without explaining wide color gamut and transfer functions.

For a more technical article & audience, Chris Lilley wrote an excellent
post on the cICP chunk <https://svgees.us/blog/cICP.html>.


Thank you, and congratulations.

Received on Tuesday, 24 June 2025 10:48:41 UTC