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A new PNG spec

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Dwedit ◴[] No.44374627[source]
If you wanted better compression, it's called Lossless WEBP. Lossless WEBP is such a nice codec. Compared with Lossless JXL, it decompresses many times more quickly, and while JXL usually produces a smaller file, it doesn't always.

Lossless AVIF is not competitive.

However, lossless WEBP does not support indexed color images. If you need palettes, you're stuck with PNG for now.

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1. altairprime ◴[] No.44375187[source]
I look forward to seeing what PNG v5 does in the future with compression, especially relative to existing formats.