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[challenge entry] The horror!

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(McGeorge, Fri 12 Mar 2004, 23:38, archived)
# is that a gif,
or am i pissed?
(I helped save b3ta! pickledpizza Older, nicer, fluffier., Fri 12 Mar 2004, 23:41, archived)
# it's a fireworks .png,
I think. Curious.
(I helped save b3ta! Stickman_ben, Fri 12 Mar 2004, 23:42, archived)
# No...
it's a PNG
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 12 Mar 2004, 23:42, archived)
# It's a PNG
They are the future.
(Marwood, Fri 12 Mar 2004, 23:43, archived)
# much like
garlic bread.
(I helped save b3ta! Dano, Fri 12 Mar 2004, 23:45, archived)
# To Gif or PNG
Somebody - a linux twat - once bugged me in a chat room about the evil of gif's. Summit to do with license issues that only penguin linux people can get upset over... But hey, PNiGs optimise better methinks
(McGeorge, Fri 12 Mar 2004, 23:46, archived)
# The patent/license
for GIF's ran out last year so they are royalty free now anyway.
(Marwood, Fri 12 Mar 2004, 23:49, archived)
# Gif patents expire
this year.

Er, in europe that is to say, it's already expired in america.

png animation is done with a different file type (mng?) which if I remember rightly isn't supported by most browsers, if any.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Fri 12 Mar 2004, 23:51, archived)
# but it's the only time you'll ever see something referred to as
"an animated ming" outside of a flash gordon comic
(I helped save b3ta! Dano, Fri 12 Mar 2004, 23:55, archived)