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It's implemented on top of vanilla libpng.

In practice, only WebKit-based browsers will get APNG, not Chromium-based ones. That's not a big market share. But WebKit and Blink engines are still pretty similar, so there's something to consider.

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> In practice, only WebKit-based browsers will get APNG, not Chromium-based ones. That's not a big market share.

Safari Mobile is a pretty big marketshare, if that ever trickles down to it.

Safari uses WebKit, except for WebKit image decoders.

The good news is, Apple implemented APNG support on their own: http://caniuse.com/apng

So at this point there are 2 open source implementation, plus 1 closed source.

Vanilla libpng, not libapng? Interesting. Apparently they've built an APNG decoder.

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