We are looking fro people who like to contribute to the AnimatedPNG project. If you would like to submit apng’s, articles, tutorials, or anything please contact me at brotherbrendan (a) gmail dot com.

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Just thought this list would be use or interest to some of you.

• Nightly Firefox builds (and probably other Mozilla-based products) display
  Animated PNGs
• Opera 9.5, currently (Sept 2007) in development
• KSquirrel (an image viewer for Linux)
• xn view, a multimedia viewer
• Imagine, Image & Animation Viewer for Windows
• Justin Dolske’s APNG Editor
• Developement version of GIF Movie Gear
• Animated PNG Writer for ImageJ
• SlidePlay, a slideshow generator
• GifToAPNG Converter
• Holger’s SVG2PNG
• My online APNG assembler
• Reto Hoehener’s japng

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Since we launched this almost a month ago we have been inundated with feedback, mostly good ;). We have also been receiving close to 4000 visits a day, seems there is definitely in interest in this technology, for good or bad!

A few thoughts have come to my mind, perhaps we need to consider campaigning apng’s within the open source community as well as web designers/developers. It would be interesting to see if this technology will be adapted by software like Gimp and Inkscape. Imagine a built in apng tool that would allow to optimize, sequence, and assemble apng’s.

I would also like to see how creative we can be with apng’s without over doing it, which seems to be the biggest question on peoples minds. I think if we can keep file sizes down and implement apng’s in a useful way, like navigation, simple ads, interface design, logos, etc., then perhaps there is a chance that other will begin to adopt and take advantage of this technology.

Let’s face it, png’s are better than gif ’s, so why are we sitting on the fence?

So, for those apng enthusiasts out there, let’s spread the word and see what happens.

-Brendan

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Over the weekend PHUG members began a re-development project of the APNG site. We received over 4000 visits in the last few days, which lead to an enormous amount of valuable feedback.

We will be continuing our efforts to maintain the most up-to-date information/documentation associated with APNGs, and include a variety of workshops, tutorials and samples as references to this new specification.

We are always looking for contributors to this project including both designers and developers. We encourage everyone to let us know what they would like to see on the site and further developments with this project.

Please contact us at info@phug.ca.

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Thank you to graphicsguru from spreadfirefox.com for publishing our story on foxiewire.com!

You can read the story here , please make sure to vote for us!!!

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PHUG - Open Source Culture , a Toronto based online community, is proud to be a major contributor of the APNG project by launching this site. It is our goal to promote the APNG file format to designers and developers everywhere. We hope that this site becomes a community that APNG enthusiasts can come to learn about APNG development through a wide range of tutorials, samples, and creative concepts.

PHUG has been working hard with help from BackSpaceStudios, Seneca College School of Communication Arts and School of Computer Studies, and Andrew Smith (APNG Developer), to develop an arena where designers and developers can come together to explore new creative avenues.

The APNG community is still in development, we are working on adding tutorials, workshops, and other ways educating the community on APNG’s.

We are always looking for suggestions, feedback, and contributors.

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