APNG patch for graphics/png port

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:38:56 -0600, Coleman Kane <cokane at freebsd.org>
wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 22:54 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:22:34 -0600, Coleman Kane <cokane at freebsd.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I recently played with building Thunderbird 3.0b1 from source (it  
>> works
>> > pretty well, btw). I was playing with some of the options to enable
>> > using the system versions of a number of libraries, rather than  
>> relying
>> > upon statically linking them into the project.
>>
>> We should keep compile static link, because PNG folks disapprove  
>> Mozilla's
>> APNG patch. It's what we did with Firefox 3.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mezz
>>
>
> Any idea why the mozilla folk jumped on further developing APNG, rather
> than just using (much more mature) MNG for the same purpose?

I have no idea. The google has found useful links and I think two URLs
might help you. I didn't read there as I have no interest with and don't
care about APNG vs MNG.

http://mozilla.wikia.com/wiki/APNG_vs_MNG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG#History

Cheers,
Mezz


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