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A new PNG spec

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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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Geezus_42 ◴[25 Jun 25 10:48 UTC] No.44375752[source]▶
Great, so I can download it, but then I have to convert it to a different format before half my apps will be able to use it.
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wltr ◴[25 Jun 25 11:27 UTC] No.44376017[source]▶
Maybe the issue is with your operating system then?
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jdiff ◴[25 Jun 25 11:37 UTC] No.44376098[source]▶
App support has very little to do with the operating system. OSes by and large will preview it just fine.
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1. wltr ◴[25 Jun 25 12:46 UTC] No.44376683[source]▶
I meant Windows, as macOS and Linux are usually good with modern things. It’s trivial to add the support if you don’t have it. I have no idea about Windows, but I got this vibe of someone using Win7 in 2025 and complaining the world moved on and keeps moving on.