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A new PNG spec

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614 points bluedel | 4 comments | 24 Jun 25 13:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.671s | source
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adgjlsfhk1 ◴[25 Jun 25 05:17 UTC] No.44373831[source]▶
I'm very curious to see how this will end up stacking up vs lossless jpegxl
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Simran-B ◴[25 Jun 25 06:34 UTC] No.44374195[source]▶
I doubt it can get anywhere near. What is even the point of a new PNG version if there's something as advanced as JXL that is also royalty-free?
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layer8 ◴[25 Jun 25 07:04 UTC] No.44374383[source]▶
Browser support for JPEG XL is poor (basically only Safari I think), while the new PNG spec is already supported by all mainstream browsers.
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1. encom ◴[25 Jun 25 07:19 UTC] No.44374472[source]▶
It's poor, only because Google is using their stranglehold on browsers, to push their own WebP trash. That company can't get broken up soon enough.
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2. layer8 ◴[25 Jun 25 07:55 UTC] No.44374699[source]▶
Firefox also doesn’t support JPEG XL out of the box, and Chrome does support the new PNG, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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3. trallnag ◴[25 Jun 25 14:30 UTC] No.44377771[source]▶
How about renaming JPEG XL to PNG or just merging the complete spec into PNG 3.0?
4. account42 ◴[26 Jun 25 10:36 UTC] No.44386023[source]▶
Firefox is there to prevent/delay the forced breakup of Googles monopoly no to provide any real competition, thanks for showing another example of that.