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It's serious business.

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/06/line-270m-a-year-sticker-sa...

> so it'd be best to forget that GIF and APNG ever existed.

There are some good arguments in "Why not simply support WebM in <img>?": https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/faq#why_should_i_us...

Supported http://littlesvr.ca/apng/inter-frame.html

The government is leading the way because they have NASA budget to spend on completely unprofitable, but scientifically interesting projects.

> The lossy variant (which is the only interesting one) does not support full-resolution color. You have to live with chroma subsampling which messes up anything with sharp saturated colors.

I always wondered if 4:4:4 but with more aggressive compression of chroma could beat the good old 4:2:0.

Still, it's not clear what subset of libwebp features will become popular. For example, I don't see much enthusiasm for animated webp. Even their own blog is full of GIFs: https://blog.google/products/allo/buzzfeed-stickers-google-a...

> Actually impossible, not just expensive like getting someone to Mars in the very near future. The tech didn't exist.

What about the tech to grow food in space? Is it "just expensive" or it doesn't exists? I think it doesn't exist.

I think we need a dedicated food-growing space lab, and run it for least 10 years, until we're confident we have a robust technology that works.

The article is completely wrong about technical aspects of animated GIFs:

> Unlike GIFs, video files don't actually contain every frame of animation you see

> As a GIF, it takes up more than 60 MB because every single frame needs to be stored as a complete image.

This is ridiculous. See http://www.drdobbs.com/optimizing-gif-animations/184412988

The resistance is all but disappeared. No doubt we'll see APNG is Chrome, and WebP in Firefox within a year or so.

Somebody, make "image format powered by brotli", please.

Cassini also spent several years exploring Saturn system, but discovery of geysers on Enceladus and rivers/lakes on Titan only makes them more interesting.

Gas giants by itself are less interesting. Sure they will photograph those enormous clouds up close and measure their oxygen/hydrogen ratio with more precision, and maybe that's exciting for some scientists.

But you look at Europa and Enceladus and can't help but imagine rovers driving there one day, and can you imagine some craft floating down the river on Titan shooting 360 video?

libpng is a reference implementation of the PNG format. They don't have to support every third-party extension.

But libpng provides callback methods for "unknown" chucks, so the application can read and handle them. So it's possible to process APNG with libpng.

It doesn't have to be completely self-sufficient. They have 15 pressurized modules, I don't understand why 1 of them can't be dedicated to advance this vital technology.

At the very least, ISS should have a module or two dedicated to growing food. Right now. I don't understand why they're neglecting this technology.

Paeth filter helps. This PNG is only 251 bytes:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/PNG-Grad...

a.k.a. Thousands of Incompatible File Formats.

These days it's basically "what libtiff supports".

42x42 seems odd for JPEG, why not something divisible by 8 or 16?

> We now employ 10 people and 5 robots.

As a time traveler from 1960, I'm totally not surprised to read that.

Devs who never abandoned their projects are doing fine. Not one of them complained about "hostile takeover".

> Until they take that control from you.

They won't because I'm not abandoning my projects.

People who complain have one thing in common - they abandoned their projects on SF. It's kinda like letting the domain name expired and then complaining that somebody took over. Always keep an eye on your hosting and your domain names, folks.

Let's say it becomes possible. Then what? If your project is popular, it would be on softpedia, filehippo, majorgeeks and many other "free software" aggregators. If your project license allows others to distribute your software, you can't stop them.

I keep complete control over my projects, and I'll make sure it won't happen.

>What I don't understand about any of this is why anyone wouldn't just either move their project to Github or self host.

Personally, I like their download stats:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/apng/files/libpng/stats/tim...

But generally, why would I move if I never had problems with the service?

They had this "You Can Take Over Abandoned Projects" policy for years:

https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Abandoned%20Pr...

I took over APNG project in 2011, nice short name, it was really abandoned, and I don't feel bad about it:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/apng/

What about all the other websites?

http://filehippo.com/download_nmap

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network-Tools/Misc-Networking-T...

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/nmap_security_scanne...

http://www.chip.de/downloads/Nmap_13013407.html

Try this:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/apngasm/

APNG support in WebKit is implemented as a thin layer on top on regular vanilla libpng.

So all that stuff is not very relevant.

Yeah, France shared information about Moussaoui, Russia shared information about Tsarnaev, so it's hard to imagine U.S. withholding similar kind of information in similar situations, so it was probably a bluff.

But still, that's playing hardball.

That's what we have in 2015:

https://www.google.com/logos/doodles/2015/st-patricks-day-20...

JPEG usually wins over PNG compression-wise, but in some use cases it makes sense to use PNG.

The same thing with animation/video.