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Re: ANG draft 4
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2007-04-06 05:33:35
At 06:38 AM 4/5/2007 +0000, you wrote:
>I finally caught up with the APNG/mPNG threads.

I wondered when you would chime in with something like
this.

>    Since aHDR and aDAT are invalid in PNG, they are
errors if
>    encountered in a PNG datastream.

An ANG-unaware decoder won't know that they are invalid.

>    Like any erroneous ancillary
>    chunks, decoders should ignore them, and notify the
user if
>    appropriate.

It will do whatever it does with unrecognized ancillary
chunks,
usually ignore without comment.

>    Putting all the frame data in one chunk avoids the
complication of
>    how to deal with reordering by ANG-unaware PNG
editors.

It's a tradeoff between complexity and a potentially
overly-large chunk.

Glenn

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