Requests to support animated PNG files natively in Chrome have been going around since about 2008, but Google has not gotten around to putting the feature in until now.

Animated PNG (or aPNG for short) is one of several file formats created to replace GIFs, with support for 24-bit images and 8-bit transparency. Starting with Chrome 59, Google finally supports aPNG.

With the release of iOS 8, Safari has gained the ability to display Animated PNGs (APNGs). Originally proposed in 2004 as a replacement to animated GIF images, APNGs offers more color and ...

Animated PNG, or APNG for short, is a relatively new file format that functions similarly to GIF. Unlike GIF, however, APNG supports both 24-bit images and 8-bit transparency.

Support for animated PNG (APNG) images is one of many compelling new features in Firefox 3. Although the feature has been supported since March, it hasn't been widely tested yet due to the lack of ...

Twitter has announced that it is blocking the APNG image format from its service. APNG is an animated PNG file, and Twitter is taking this step because it doesn't follow standard autoplay settings ...

Twitter is banning animated PNG image files (APNGs) from its platform, after an attack on the Epilepsy Foundation’s Twitter account sent out similar animated images that could potentially cause ...