Announcing a #FirstPublicWorkingDraft of the PNG specification in its 𝟑𝐫𝐝 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a raster image format that was first developed in 1994 by an informal group outside W3C, as an improvement to the existing GIF and TIFF #timetogiveinput
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Completely backwards compatible with millions of PNG graphics conforming to the older (2003) 2nd edition, this document addresses reported errata and adds much-requested new features such as coding-independent code points, support for EXIF #metadata and #APNG (animated PNG):
Oct 25, 2022 · 1:25 PM UTC
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PNG was first issued as a W3C Recommendation in Oct. 1996, and this is the 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 document published by a very young W3C, 26 years ago 😉 Historical moment: check the related @w3c press release w3.org/Press/PNG-PR.en.html and the PNG logo designed at that time
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A big advantage of PNG over GIF is that none of its inventors made any claim about whether the G is hard or soft! theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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The PNG #WorkingGroup will continue to refine and maintain the PNG spec, incl. handling newly reported bugs, tracking implementations, etc. Please give feedback in the #GitHub repo where the PNG specification is developed: github.com/w3c/PNG-spec/
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