animated image formats

[splodenode]

is there any other format besides gif that can do animation?

 

[trekkiedane]

Well, supposedly there's the .png-format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animated_Portable_Network_Graphics

 

[Arrqh]

Julemand said:
Well, supposedly there's the .png-format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animated_Portable_Network_Graphics

Except next to no one will be able to properly display that format, as the Wiki article suggests.

For web based things, you're basically stuck with GIFs.

 

[trekkiedane]

^Indeed, it is a work in progress, but might just be the next big thing; it's (soon) got animation and it's got better compression than .gif plus it has the transparent-colour (although pre-IE7 it didn't show as transparent in MS-browsers.)

 

[Deleted 2]

Julemand said:
^Indeed, it is a work in progress, but might just be the next big thing; it's (soon) got animation and it's got better compression than .gif plus it has the transparent-colour (although pre-IE7 it didn't show as transparent in MS-browsers.)

Waste of time. Mozilla used to have animated png support. The firefox developers took it out (because they thought the 200 Kb of code it required was a waste of disk space )

 

[trekkiedane]

Didn't know that! -However they're putting it back in vers 3…

 

[splodenode]

cool how do i make a animated png?
photoshop aint got that option on it

 

[trekkiedane]

^I'd like to know that too!

The GIMP isn't much help either!

 

[TheSeeker]

I don't make them often but I am almost positive they can be made in Photoshop. Hell, I made my avatar in Photoshop Elements 3.