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Happy Koalaween! We just released a new version of Koa11y. It's an easy to use program to detect accessibility issues on webpages and output a report in different formats (HTML, JS…

What about NW.js, It's the real hero here. They spent 5 years building up the platform, being used by thousands of companies and apps, basically inventing this technology; just to …

You won't ever fully replace GIF, at least not in the next decade. There are too many devices and apps/software that ONLY have GIF support due to the low computational footprint (d…

The truncated version is basically a lower resolution. So if you have a 5000x5000px image and you display it on your page as 100x100px, it only needs to download a small amount of …

On September 19, 2016 Jon Sneyers wrote "I'm going to drop the "rc" and tag what we have now as v0.2. This will be FLIF16 and all bitstream-breaking changes will have to be in a ne…

For clarification, on the FLIF GitHub "Issues page", there is a ticket indicating an intention to build FLIF into FireFox's rendering engine Gecko, and also Servo (which will event…

The FLIF format isn't finished yet. There are optimizations still being made both in compression ratio and decoding performance. Encoding performance is a lower priority. Also it w…

Current plan is to keep lossless and lossy versions of the format in the same bitstream for encoders/decoders and to differentiate the output files encoded to be lossy as ".flyf" (…

FLIF allows for animation, and it is very possible to interpret each frame of the animation as it's own layer. This would year the same lossless quality as a TIFF at a much smaller…

Well TIFF has very poor compression leading to large file sizes compared even to PNG. And thus no one uses it on the web. FLIF has very good compression, it will only download the …

The first official version of FLIF has not been released yet, and currently they are discussing releasing it under Apache 2 or MPL (Mozilla Public License).

The current decode time (on a lower end ARM CPU) is approx 1 megabyte per second. This of course will increase as the format is finalized and better/more optimized decoders are wri…

The first official version of FLIF has not been released yet, and currently they are discussing releasing it under Apache 2 or MPL (Mozilla Public License).

In the part where it says "Spot the difference" and everyone says "The BPG one looks worse". That's because BPG, even in "lossless" mode... is lossy. So you're taking a video with …