Chris Blume

Understood. Will do. Thank you. One small change: The chunks I would submit pull requests for would be public. They're already in the spec under Candidate Recommendation with implementations in...

I'll try to contact Michael Stokes and will try to read up on what happened. I am in direct contact with Chris Lilley. He and I have been working hard...

I want to clarify something here: The original post is about adding support for the new cICP chunk (coding-independent code points). @svgeesus linked to the cICP chunk and mentioned how...

I contacted some friends at Apple to see if anyone from Apple would like to join the PNG WG. But for the moment, I think this issue about the CgBI...

> I'm asking for the 2022 PNG specification to match PNG as used in 2022. ... This would be similar to formalizing APNG in the spec (#26). That's a good...

I'm re-opening since 1.) the patent may have expired, and 2.) the public/private bit may not actually be a deciding factor. I still hope we can get input from a...

Thank you for your research, @nicolas17 . This is both good to hear and also unfortunate. I agree with @randy408 . On one hand, the PNG Working Group has agreed...

There certainly are some situational benefits: - BGRA can save swizzeling - Premultiplied alpha can save computation - Deflate stream can file size That said, it might be best for...

The 4th letter being capitalized means it is unsafe to change the file if the chunk isn't understood. But if a user is using pngcheck-ruby only to read the file...

My initial thought (I haven't finished reading--will update as I do) is that this is similar to other non-RGB channels. That brings up new [color type list](https://w3c.github.io/PNG-spec/#table111) vs new chunk....