PNG Specification Third Edition Released: APNG and HDR Now Officially Standardized

APNG offers smooth, efficient animations with full-color and alpha support — backward compatible with non-animated viewers. HDR PNG adds modern color precision to this 30-year-old format. Chrome, Firefox, and most major tools already support both.

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Everyone is focused now on AI and how it will improve/ruin our lives, but in this chaos, W3C offered us some stability in releasing the third edition of PNG image format. PNG image format is long with us, and so is the specification draft for it. But even though it was available for many years in many apps, just now the specification reached the W3C Recommendation level.

It’s an important step for this lossless, portable format of saving images. The two important highlights of this release are Animated PNG and High Dynamic Range PNG.

Animated PNG

Currently for animations widely used format is GIF. But GIF wasn’t really designed to handle full-color images. APNG comes to save us all from these 90s vibe animations with 24-bit images and 8-bit transparency.