Add png feature
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| name: PNG | |||
| description: The PNG image format is a rater graphics file format with animation, alpha transparency, and lossless compression. Also known as Portable Network Graphics. | |||
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Portable Network Graphics is more like the expanded name than an alternative name. I'm not sure if we have an established style for expanding abbreviations, but maybe?
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| description: The PNG image format is a rater graphics file format with animation, alpha transparency, and lossless compression. Also known as Portable Network Graphics. | |
| description: The PNG image format is a rater graphics file format with animation, alpha transparency, and lossless compression. PNG means Portable Network Graphics. |
Just not spelling it out would be fine I think, will anyone really search for the full name?
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| description: The PNG image format is a rater graphics file format with animation, alpha transparency, and lossless compression. Also known as Portable Network Graphics. | |
| description: The Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image format is a rater graphics file format with animation, alpha transparency, and lossless compression. |
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In AVIF we do something like this:
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| description: The PNG image format is a rater graphics file format with animation, alpha transparency, and lossless compression. Also known as Portable Network Graphics. | |
| description: The PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format is a rater graphics file format with animation, alpha transparency, and lossless compression. |
I like the idea of putting the most widely-used name first and the pedantic, official one after.
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This adds a feature that uses the
mediatypes.png.*data from BCD and maps to a few caniuse entries.Blocked by mdn/browser-compat-data#28770. It doesn't yet align with caniuse.