History of GIF

	Revision 17 . . (edit) October 11, 2001 5:59 am by Zundark [of -> on]
	Revision 15 . . (edit) October 9, 2001 9:38 pm by Zundark [mention MIME type]
	Revision 13 . . October 9, 2001 1:09 pm by Damian Yerrick [active voice; explain dithering; true-color GIF images; more comparisons vs. PNG; clarified standard status of MNG; more Burn All GIFs info]

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and as of 2001, most popular web browsers support PNG images. But PNG only slowly began to replace GIF for still images,

and most popular web browsers now support PNG images. But as of 2001, PNG has only slowly begun to replace GIF for still images,

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The animation extensions to PNG -- called MNG -- have only recently become a standard, and few applications support MNG.

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MNG, the animation-supporting relative of PNG, has only recently reached version 1.0 and few applications support it, so it has made little impact on the use of GIFs for animation.