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A new PNG spec

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612 points bluedel | 2 comments | 24 Jun 25 13:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ksec ◴[25 Jun 25 11:10 UTC] No.44375919[source]▶
It is just a spec on something widely implemented already.

Assuming Next gen PNG will still require new decoder. They could just call it PNG2.

JPEG-XL already provides everything most people asked for a lossless codec. If there are any problems it is its encoding and decoding speed and resources.

Current champion of Lossless image codec is HALIC. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38990568

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1. klabb3 ◴[25 Jun 25 12:00 UTC] No.44376276[source]▶
What about transparency? That’s the main benefit of PNG imo.
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2. cmiller1 ◴[25 Jun 25 13:18 UTC] No.44376995[source]▶
Yes JPEG-XL has an alpha channel.