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MNG (pronounced ming) is a public file format for animated images. The name stands for Multiple-image Network Graphics.
MNG is closely related to the PNG image format. When PNG development started in early 1995, it was decided not to incorporate support for animation, not least of all because this feature of GIF was little used at the time. However, work soon started on MNG as an animation-supporting version of PNG.
Version 1.0 of the MNG specification was released on 31 January 2001. MNG is therefore very new, and is currently not as widely supported as PNG. Nonetheless several web browsers, Mozilla (removed in version 1.5a), Netscape and Konqueror, do already have native MNG support, and MNG plugins are available for Opera and Internet Explorer. The MNG developers hope that in time MNG will begin to replace GIF for animated images on the World Wide Web, just as PNG has already begun to do for still images.
The structure of MNG files is essentially the same as that of PNG files, differing only in the slightly different signature (8A 4D 4E 47 0D 0A 1A 0A in hexadecimal) and the use of a much greater variety of chunks to support all the animation features that it provides. Images to be used in the animation are stored in the MNG file as encapsulated PNG or JNG images.
Two versions of MNG of reduced complexity are also defined: MNG-LC (low complexity) and MNG-VLC (very low complexity). These allow applications to include some level of MNG support without having to implement the entire MNG specification.
MNG does not yet have a registered MIME media type, but video/x-mng can be used.
In an unfortunate turn, Mozilla has removed native support for MNG in version 1.5a and all future versions and does not seem inclined to replace it anytime soon, despite the community's objections. The Firebird plugin is the official "replacement"...
There is also an attempt to create a Mozilla variant that has MNG support included called MNGzilla.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "MNG."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MNG | English | Mongolia | Geography, Law |
MNG | French | Mongolie | Geography, Law |
MNG | German | Mongolei | Geography, Law |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Title |
High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mng | 98 |
mng mango | 9 |
airline mng | 7 |
clothing mng | 7 |
fashion mng | 7 |
clothes mng | 5 |
kargo mng | 4 |
mng designer hardware | 3 |
holding mng | 3 |
convert mng | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "g-m-n" | |
+2 letters: among, gamin, genom, gnome, mange, mango, mangy, mingy, mongo, mungo. | |
+3 letters: aiming, arming, bagman, bagmen, coming, doming, engram, enigma, faming, fuming, gagman, gagmen, gamine, gaming, gamins, gammon, gasman, gasmen, genome, genoms, german, germen, gnomes, gnomic, gnomon, gonium, granum, gunman, gunmen, homing, imping, impugn, laming, legman, legmen, liming, lingam, macing, magian, magnet, magnum, making, malign, manage, manege, mangel, manger, manges, mangey, mangle, mangos, margin, mating, mawing, maying, mazing, menage, meting, mewing, mignon, miking, miming, mingle, mining, miring, mixing, monger, mongoe, mongol, mongos, mongst, mooing, moping, morgan, morgen, moving, mowing, muling, mungos, muring, musing, muting, naming, nutmeg, ragman, ragmen, regnum, riming, taming, tegmen, timing, umping. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 4E 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)474841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Abbreviations | 5. Acronyms 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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