Comments on: Promising web file formats that never took off http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/12/16/promising-web-file-formats-that-never-took-off/ Ramblings and tech news from the Pingdom team Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:34:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: laststop http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/12/16/promising-web-file-formats-that-never-took-off/comment-page-1/#comment-405644 laststop Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:53:01 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=5087#comment-405644 MNG has a powerful system of “sprites”, but to specify where to place them, and how they should move from frame to frame, you need a specific MNG-aware animation app, with a nice GUI. Too bad MNG developers never wrote such an application. They thought libmng is enough, but apparently no. Regular users need something with a GUI. JPEG 2000 is used in some places, like NASA website. They let you download huge images in JPEG 2000, so you can work with them later offline. Lots of desktop applications - viewers, editors, support JPEG 2000, so it's not a problem. MNG has a powerful system of “sprites”, but to specify where to place them, and how they should move from frame to frame, you need a specific MNG-aware animation app, with a nice GUI.

Too bad MNG developers never wrote such an application. They thought libmng is enough, but apparently no. Regular users need something with a GUI.

JPEG 2000 is used in some places, like NASA website. They let you download huge images in JPEG 2000, so you can work with them later offline. Lots of desktop applications – viewers, editors, support JPEG 2000, so it’s not a problem.

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