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A new PNG spec

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616 points bluedel | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 13:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.332s | source
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LeoPanthera ◴[25 Jun 25 05:06 UTC] No.44373778[source]▶
> I know you all immediately wondered, better compression?. We're already working on that.

This worries me. Because presumably, changing the compression algorithm will break backwards compatibility, which means we'll start to see "png" files that aren't actually png files.

It'll be like USB-C but for images.

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1. colanderman ◴[25 Jun 25 05:38 UTC] No.44373937[source]▶
One could imagine a PNG file which contains a low-resolution version of the image with a traditional compression algorithm, and encodes additional higher-resolution detail using a new compression algorithm.