On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Brian wrote:

> PNG will support both transparency and animation IIRC.  Otherwise I
> believe there's some 'nonfree' addon to the GIMP that adds full GIF
> support.

PNG "proper" will not do animation. There is a close cousin called MNG
that does do animation. It became an official standard in January, so
it's not very well-supported yet, although there is a reference library
(http://www.libmng.com/), which is used by Mozilla apparently.

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