I found some comandline utilities for creating and optimizing apng files: apngasm, and apngdis, apngopt, and gif2apng
apngasm creates animated png files from separate png files. apngdis extracts pngs from animated pngs to separate png files. apngopt recompresses animated png files to a much smaller size. gif2apng converts animated gif files to animated png files. you can use apngdis to extract the images to seperate png files, then edit them then use apngasm to put them back together. and since apngdis and apngasm doesn't alter the existing format of the existing frames when taking the apng files apart or putting them back together, you can use them along with a png compressor/optimizer that only compresses/optimizes non animated pngs (such as advpng which is part of AdvanceCOMP) to compress/optimize the frames individually before putting them back together with apngasm. these tools will really help when creating, editing,  and/or optimizing animated png files.

What about Paint.NET and the APNG plug-in?

P.S. Only Firefox and poo pooty Opera can support APNG.

P.S. paint.net is absolute poo pooty poo poo

What about Paint.NET and the APNG plug-in?

P.S. Only Firefox and poo pooty Opera can support APNG.

The command line tools seem to support better compression and flexibility. advpng uses 7-Zip's implementation of the deflate algorithm which has a much higher compression ratio than most deflate encoders. pngout benchmarks through various configurations to find the best compression method before applying it. Using this along with apngasm can create a highly compressed apng file. The apng plugin didn't achieve this good of compression. Also there's a plugin for Google Chrome/Chromium that adds apng support. you can also use the command line tools along with your image editor. usually after I'm done creating or modifying an image GIMP, run the png through either pngout or advpng to recompress it to a much smaller size.

GIF OR GET OUT

The only time I use opera is on my Android devices

non-mobile opera is crap

cool beans about the APNG I guess, I installed that Chrome extension but never use it because APNGs aren't really a thing anywhere

Step 1. Make an animated GIF.
Step 2. Upload it to your website.
Step 3. Change the file extenson on the URL to .PNG

Animated PNGs in all web browsers!

Step 1. Make an animated GIF.
Step 2. Upload it to your website.
Step 3. Change the file extenson on the URL to .PNG

Animated PNGs in all web browsers!

WARNING: I tried this and it gave me a virus

This does not surprise me.

Step 1. Make an animated GIF.
Step 2. Upload it to your website.
Step 3. Change the file extenson on the URL to .PNG

Animated PNGs in all web browsers!

actually web browsers don't determine the file type from the file extension, .they determinite from the file's header (aka the first few bytes of a file)

Quote from: Thunder on 18-05-2012, 17:50:27 PM

Step 1. Make an animated GIF.
Step 2. Upload it to your website.
Step 3. Change the file extenson on the URL to .PNG

Animated PNGs in all web browsers!

actually web browsers don't determine the file type from the file extension, .they determinite from the file's header (aka the first few bytes of a file)

That's my point. It will allow an image with a .png extension to be animated in all web browsers. Animated PNGs, no plugins required. But you're a stupid piece of poo poo so you didn't even realize that. 32-bit color in animated images? What a waste of precious processing power. Bettwer to keep to old standards and trick people into thinking they're getting something new.

Yes, let's arbitrarily pick one point in technology and stick with it forever.