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A new PNG spec

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616 points bluedel | 2 comments | 24 Jun 25 13:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.427s | 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. upcoming-sesame ◴[25 Jun 25 12:16 UTC] No.44376400[source]▶
If you are using an image optimization service like Imgix / Cloudflare Image Resizing then it doesn't really matter, image can be uploaded as any supported format and will be sent to the end user according to their "Accept" header
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2. hsbauauvhabzb ◴[25 Jun 25 13:59 UTC] No.44377431[source]▶
if you’d like to go and implement that in all the millions of existing web apps, go ahead?

Let’s also not forget the dependency mess that leaves in applications before we do though..