Flash Player 8 PNG compatibility

In the current Flash version loading PNG images in the Flash Player  using MovieClip.loadMovie() didn't work. But now, with the new Flash Player 8 support for PNG is finally included!

A demo of progressive JPG/GIF/PNG loading >>

If you are familiar with the PNG file format here are the chunk types currently fully supported:

• IHDR Image header
• IDAT Image data
• PLTE Palette information
• tRNS Transparency extension
• gAMA Image gamma
• IEND End of stream

And here are the chunk types that are NOT supported (According to the PNG 1.2 specification these are truely optional and not required for displaying PNG files):

• cHRM Primary chromaticities
• sRGB Standard RGB color space
• iCCP Embedded ICC profile
• tEXt Textual data
• zTXt Compressed textual data
• iTXt International textual data
• bKGD Background color
• pHYs Physical pixel dimensions
• sBIT Significant bits
• sPLT Suggested palette
• hIST Palette histogram
• tIME Image last-modification time