FW: RFC 2083 on PNG: Portable Network Graphics

Dan Kohn (dan@teledesic.com)
Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:32:12 -0800


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Is anybody working on a multiple graphic versions (i.e., supporting
animation) of PNG? It seems like nobody will drop GIF and adopt PNG
until it can offer the same functionality of animated GIFs.

- dan

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>Subject: RFC 2083 on PNG: Portable Network Graphics
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> RFC 2083:
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> Title: PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification
> Version 1.0
> Author: T. Boutell, et. al.
> Date: January 1997
> Mailbox: boutell@boutell.com
> Pages: 102
> Characters: 242520
> Updates/Obsoletes: None
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> URL: ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2083.txt
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>This document describes PNG (Portable Network Graphics), an
>extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed
>storage of raster images. This specification defines the Internet
>Media Type image/png.
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