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A new PNG spec

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617 points bluedel | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 13:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | 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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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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1. BeFlatXIII ◴[25 Jun 25 12:50 UTC] No.44376715[source]▶
Or convert before you upload because the image host has delusions about fighting the Google monoculture by refusing WebP support. Even more of a head scratcher when WebM is their only video format.