Growing older PNG picture format will get refreshed with first replace in over 20 years
The World Vast Internet Consortium (W3C) lately launched an replace to the Transportable Community Graphics (PNG) picture format, one of the crucial standard picture codecs for internet content material. Tom’s {Hardware} writes that that is the primary time the W3C has up to date the file format since 2003.
The PNG picture file format was initially launched in 1996, however that is solely the third model ever. New options within the newest model embody help for Excessive Dynamic Vary (HDR) pictures, animation through animated PNG (APNG) recordsdata, and storage of EXIF metadata.
The W3C determined to replace the file customary after one other group throughout the consortium—engaged on time-based textual content corresponding to subtitles, captions, and audio descriptions—realized that PNG recordsdata wanted HDR help.
The most recent model of PNG is already supported by standard internet browsers together with Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, in addition to artistic modifying software program corresponding to Adobe Photoshop and Da Vinci Resolve.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and was translated and localized from Swedish.
