Re: [EXTERNAL] [PNG] Third Edition is released!

Seconded, Chris Blume did and continues to do an excellent job leading 
the group!

Thanks to you too, Chris Seeger, for valuable insights into the needs of 
the broadcast and streaming world. And for creating test files!

On 2025-06-24 08:05, Seeger, Chris (NBCUniversal) wrote:
>
> Yes!!! This is tremendous.  Great job chairing Chris Blume and thanks 
> to Chris Lilley for guidance and experience.
>
> A great learning experience for me as well 😊
>
> Best,
>
> Chris
>
> *From: *Chris Blume (ProgramMax) <programmax@gmail.com>
> *Date: *Tuesday, June 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
> *To: *Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Working Group <public-png@w3.org>
> *Subject: *[EXTERNAL] [PNG] Third Edition is released!
>
> Congratulations, everyone!
> PNG Third Edition is now a W3C Recommendation 
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.w3.org/TR/png-3/__;!!PIZeeW5wscynRQ!p5KZJT44RAzEsL4gzPyHjo7rk8YzcHjlAERUxgLRLhRiThAvAADksd2xcFeZ8t3oqV8ZzEmvyxVGnjrkJ3Bf$>.
>
> I appreciate all your hard work on it. It took a lot to dust off a 
> 20-year-old spec and drum up enough interest across various industries 
> to make this happen. Without your expertise and effort, I don't think 
> it would have happened. I'm glad we accomplished this.
>
>
> I wrote a post to announce PNG Third Edition's updates 
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/__;!!PIZeeW5wscynRQ!p5KZJT44RAzEsL4gzPyHjo7rk8YzcHjlAERUxgLRLhRiThAvAADksd2xcFeZ8t3oqV8ZzEmvyxVGnppmfA_n$>. 
> 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://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/svgees.us/blog/cICP.html__;!!PIZeeW5wscynRQ!p5KZJT44RAzEsL4gzPyHjo7rk8YzcHjlAERUxgLRLhRiThAvAADksd2xcFeZ8t3oqV8ZzEmvyxVGnnV7QuXq$>.
>
>
> Thank you, and congratulations.
>
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Chris Lilley
@svgeesus@mastodon.scot
Technical Director @ W3C
W3C Technical Programming Team, Core Web Design