News and History of the MNG Developers from 1997

Herein lie news items and historical stuff regarding MNG. Feel free to poke around, but note that some of the links, particularly the older ones, may be broken. Keep in mind that this is history here...

• latest - see here

• 31 December 1997 - Draft 42 of the MNG specification is released (more clarifications; no change in technical content).

• 17 September 1997 - Network Performance Effects of HTTP/1.1, CSS1, and PNG is presented at SIGCOMM '97. (See the 24 June 1997 entry below.)

• 30 June 1997 - Draft 41 of the MNG specification is released (some typos fixed, one new framing mode added).

• 24 June 1997 - Some W3C folks, including the PNG group's own Chris Lilley, expand their WWW6 talk (10 April 1997) into a nice paper entitled Network Performance Effects of HTTP/1.1, CSS1, and PNG. It covers MNG as well as PNG, with emphasis on the bandwidth and time-to-readability aspects of both formats. (PDF and PostScript versions are also available.)

• 27 April 1997 - Draft 40 of the MNG specification is released. Glenn declares it essentially finished, pending verification through implementation.

• 5 April 1997 - Draft 39 of the MNG specification is released.

• 28 March 1997 - Draft 38 of the MNG specification is released.

• 10 March 1997 - Draft 37 of the MNG specification is released.

• 19 February 1997 - Draft 36 of the MNG specification is released.

• 8 February 1997 - Draft 35 of the MNG specification is released.

• 1 February 1997 - Glenn Randers-Pehrson's article, MNG: A Multiple-Image Format in the PNG Family, appears in the Winter 1997 issue of the World Wide Web Journal. This issue also has lots of good things to say about PNG, and it contains an interview with Chris Lilley about PNG, MNG, and other matters. (An updated version of Glenn's article is available in this directory; look for MNG-status-*.html .)

• 25 January 1997 - Draft 34 of the MNG specification is released.

• 21 January 1997 - Draft 33 of the MNG specification is released.

• 10 January 1997 - Draft 32 of the MNG specification is released.

• 4 January 1997 - Draft 31 of the MNG specification is released.

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• Historical MNG news:
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• MNG Documentation
  • MNG Specification
    • MNG-LC subset (low complexity)
    • MNG-VLC subset (very low complexity)
    • JNG subset (JPEG Network Graphics)
  • PNG Documentation
• MNG-supporting Applications
• MNG home page
• PNG home page

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