Re: [PNG] Industry reactions to PNG Third Edition release

Excellent! Some more stuff:

- The Krita (a Photoshop-like drawing program) documentation had 
outdated info about APNG being "unofficial" and "not widely implemented" 
so I got that corrected [1]
- Pushing on CanIUse to add "CICP in images" as a feature they track [2]
- GIMP (another paint program] 3.1.2 released 23 June adds APNG support [3]
- libpng is working on APNG support [4][5]
- I asked Servo (the new web browser engine, written in Rust) to look at 
APNG support [6] and someone started working on it [7]
   (I also asked about CICP but nothing yet) [8]
- I wrote a deep dive on CICP, which seems to have been well received [9]

[1] https://invent.kde.org/documentation/docs-krita-org/-/merge_requests/362
[2] https://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/issues/7031
[3] https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/06/23/gimp-3-1-2-released/#apng
[4] https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/pull/706
[5] https://github.com/jbowler/libpng/commits/libpng2-apng/
[6] https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/37493
[7] https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/37637
[8] https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/37494
[9] https://svgees.us/blog/cICP.html

On 2025-06-30 08:58, Chris Blume (ProgramMax) wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> After Third Edition became a W3C Recommendation, I spent some time 
> spreading the word. Reception seems quite positive.
>
> XDA 
> <https://www.xda-developers.com/png-file-format-update-third-edition/> 
> says "...and honestly, I shouldn't be this happy over an update to an 
> image file format."
> The story was the top of Hacker News 
> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44365754> for almost an entire day.
> There was a small mention in The Verge 
> <https://www.theverge.com/news/692595/we-finally-have-an-update-for-png>.
> And there was coverage in Tom's Hardware 
> <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/png-has-been-updated-for-the-first-time-in-22-years-new-spec-supports-hdr-and-animation>, 
> The Register 
> <https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/new_version_of_png/>, TechSpot 
> <https://www.techspot.com/news/108483-png-image-format-receives-hdr-animation-support-first.html>, 
> and many other tech news outlets.
>
>
> Theo (a programming content creator) also covered it. His reaction 
> (20m 39s into the video) was fantastic 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbLKROuv27g&t=20m39s>:
>
> "That is *really* cool. I'm super excited about this. This is an 
> awesome change.
>
> I obviously—as a media person that does a lot of code stuff and spent 
> a lot of their life working on media and encoding pipelines—I'm biased 
> and think this is the coolest **** ever.
>
> This is the first 'new standard' I've seen that's such an obvious, 
> immediate apparent win that *everything* should start adopting it and 
> using it (that is already on PNG at the very least).
>
> ...But this is awesome. I'm really pumped about the work.
> Shout out to the PNG Working Group participants."
>
>
> So congratulations, again!

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Chris Lilley
@svgeesus@mastodon.scot
Technical Director @ W3C
W3C Technical Programming Team, Core Web Design