we need transparent (like gif)

!!!

Oh no another HEIC!

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it's more to do with the obvious economic layer underneath. you give a format new life only if there's tooling and distribution muscle behind it. adobe, apple, chrome, ffmpeg etc may not get aligned at the same time. someone somewhere wants apng/hdr/png to be a standard pipe again for creative chains; maybe because video formats are too bulky for microinteraction or maybe because svg is too unsafe in sandboxed renderers. and think onboarding of animations, embedded previews, rich avatars, system wide thumbs ; all without shipping a separate codec or runtime. every time a 'dead' format comes back, it's usually because someone needed a way around a gate

Papua New Guniea never went away!

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PNG: doing very little with as much complexity as possible.

I thought this was about Papua New Guinea.

This is just rebranded MNG format that the PNG group tried to push as a ”standard” 20 years ago. Firefox removed MNG for a reason.