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A new PNG spec

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615 points bluedel | 3 comments | 24 Jun 25 13:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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AlienRobot ◴[25 Jun 25 11:33 UTC] No.44376063[source]▶
You can't even upload webp to instagram.
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bastawhiz ◴[25 Jun 25 11:36 UTC] No.44376087[source]▶
Which makes sense for an app made for photos: why would you capture a photograph to disk in a format made for distributing on the web?
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1. Sharlin ◴[25 Jun 25 12:42 UTC] No.44376630[source]▶
Instagram hasn't even been primarily or even secondarily about photos for a long time. Indeed trying to "just" upload a photo is made super inconvenient these days.
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2. bastawhiz ◴[25 Jun 25 14:23 UTC] No.44377673[source]▶
Unless you're uploading memes you've downloaded from elsewhere, this strictly isn't true. I'd consider myself an Instagram power user and the only thing that I and all the people I interact with is photos and videos. None of those are webp, or would have been worthwhile to save as webp as an intermediate format.
3. sunaookami ◴[26 Jun 25 04:45 UTC] No.44384257[source]▶
Tangentially related but Instagram is really the worst plattform for photos. I don't understand why they crop and downsize (!) pictures. Not even Twitter does this, it's unironically a better photo plattform.