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A new PNG spec

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625 points bluedel | 5 comments | 24 Jun 25 13:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.792s | source
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tonyedgecombe ◴[25 Jun 25 06:36 UTC] No.44374207[source]▶
>After 20 years of stagnation, PNG is back with renewed vigor!

After 20 years of success, we can't resist the temptation to mess with what works.

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1. eviks ◴[25 Jun 25 08:34 UTC] No.44374953[source]▶
> [not] Officially supports Exif data

How can you call this basic fail a success?

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2. tonyedgecombe ◴[25 Jun 25 11:42 UTC] No.44376138[source]▶
Exif data might be important to you but it clearly hasn't stopped the adoption of png.
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3. Retr0id ◴[25 Jun 25 12:55 UTC] No.44376757[source]▶
People crammed exif data into PNGs anyway, and now they can continue to do that but in conformance with the spec.
4. eviks ◴[25 Jun 25 16:05 UTC] No.44378830[source]▶
Yes, plenty of tech garbage floats at the top, the question is why would you argue that lack of basic fixes over decades is not stagnation, but something positive
5. account42 ◴[26 Jun 25 11:19 UTC] No.44386254[source]▶
Embedded (and thus often invisible) metadata is a mistake.