Editing Multiple-image Network Graphics (section)

==File support==

===Support===
[[Gwenview]] has native MNG support. [[GIMP]] can export images as MNG files. [[Imagemagick]] can create a MNG file from a series of PNG files. With the MNG plugin, [[Irfanview]] can read a MNG file.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm |title=IrfanView PlugIns |publisher=Irfanview.com |access-date=18 November 2012 |first=irfan |last=skiljan}}</ref> If [[MPlayer]] is linked against libmng, it and all its graphical front-ends like [[Gnome MPlayer]] can display MNG files.

[[Mozilla]] browsers and [[Netscape (web browser)|Netscape]] 6.0, 6.01 and 7.0 included native support for MNG until the code was removed in 2003 due to code size and little actual usage,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195280|title=195280 - Removal of MNG/JNG support|website=bugzilla.mozilla.org}}</ref> causing complaints on the Mozilla development site.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18574|title=18574 - (mng) restore support for MNG animation format and JNG image format|website=bugzilla.mozilla.org}}</ref> Mozilla later added support for [[APNG]] as a simpler alternative.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Animated_PNG_graphics |title=Animated PNG graphics - MDC Doc Center |date=4 July 2008 |access-date=6 December 2010}}</ref> Similarly, early versions of the [[Konqueror]] browser included MNG support but it was later dropped. MNG support was never included in [[Google Chrome]], [[Internet Explorer]], [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]], or [[Safari (web browser)|Safari]].
{| class = "wikitable"
|-
! colspan="2" | Product
! Support status
|-
| rowspan="11" | [[Image processing]]
|-
| [[Chasys Draw IES]]
| {{yes}} 
|-
| [[GIMP]]
| {{partial}} 
|-
| [[Gwenview]]
| {{yes}}
|-
| [[ImageMagick]]
| {{yes}}
|-
| [[Irfanview]]
| {{Depends|Partial, via plugin}}
|-
| <abbr title="Konqueror Media Player">KMPlayer</abbr>
| {{yes}}
|-
| Konvertor
| {{yes}}
|-
| [[MPlayer]]
| {{yes}}
|-
| [[XnView]]
| {{yes}}
|}

===Server support===
Web servers generally don't come pre-configured to support MNG files.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files&oldid=4194673 |title=Help:Images and other uploaded files |work=Wikimedia Meta-Wiki |publisher=Wikimedia Foundation |date=2 October 2012 |access-date=18 November 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://help.lycos.com/kb_article.php?ref=4470-EIHB-9773|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812150940/https://help.lycos.com/kb_article.php?ref=4470-EIHB-9773|url-status=dead|title=Database Error|archive-date=12 August 2014|website=help.lycos.com}}</ref>

The MNG developers had hoped that MNG would replace GIF for animated images on the [[World Wide Web]], just as PNG had done for still images.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/#history|title=MNG (Multiple-image Network Graphics) Home Page|website=libpng.org}}</ref> However, with the expiration of LZW patents and existence of alternative file formats such as APNG, Flash and [[Scalable Vector Graphics|SVG]], combined with lack of MNG-supporting viewers and services, web usage was far less than expected.