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A new PNG spec

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612 points bluedel | 3 comments | 24 Jun 25 13:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.628s | source
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poisonborz ◴[25 Jun 25 10:11 UTC] No.44375523[source]▶
Not backwards compatible. We just add it to that nice cupboard "great advanced image formats we will forget about".

Society doesn't need a new image format. I'd wager to say not any new multimedia format. Big corporate entites do, and have churning them out at a steady pace.

Look at poor webp - a format pushed by the largest industry players - and the abysmal everyday use it gets, and the hate it generates.

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michaelmior ◴[25 Jun 25 10:13 UTC] No.44375537[source]▶
> and the abysmal everyday use it gets

Estimates are that 95% of Internet users have a browser that supports WebP and that ~25% of the top million websites serve WebP images. I wouldn't call that abysmal.

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hsbauauvhabzb ◴[25 Jun 25 10:17 UTC] No.44375570[source]▶
My file manager can’t handle them but my browser can.

Edit: and good luck uploading the format to the majority of webforms that aren’t faang.

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1. debugnik ◴[25 Jun 25 11:49 UTC] No.44376185[source]▶
Not even Google supports webp uploads in many of their web apps, and it's their format.
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2. chillingeffect ◴[25 Jun 25 12:32 UTC] No.44376548[source]▶
Could it be a lack of resources? Or some missing expertise? Maybe they could find some interns who are familiar with it? Maybe the entire world is so obsessed w AI, we don't even care about image formats anymore.
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3. pixl97 ◴[25 Jun 25 13:06 UTC] No.44376861[source]▶
Honestly this kind of stuff happens all the time in large companies.

Interns won't want to work on a dead end like this. Moreso they need to be supervised by someone that doesn't want to get removed by being the lowest X% usefulness in a company. So all these existing tools that aren't primary revenue generators just sit on coast mode.