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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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PaulHoule ◴[25 Jun 25 12:56 UTC] No.44376771[source]▶
Blame Adobe. For what they charge for Creative Suite it ought to have supported it a long time ago.

My webcrawler sucks down a lot of WebP images, at least it did before it got the smackdown from Cloudflare.

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martin_a ◴[25 Jun 25 13:01 UTC] No.44376823[source]▶
Adobe Photoshop has support for WebP (through "Save as", not "Export") but I don't think WebP is important.
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whywhywhywhy ◴[25 Jun 25 13:08 UTC] No.44376895{3}[source]▶
But it can’t open them
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1. martin_a ◴[25 Jun 25 13:11 UTC] No.44376925{4}[source]▶
Not sure if that's version specific, but my one can (version 26.7.0) without any issues or warnings. Tried with this sample file: https://www.gstatic.com/webp/gallery/1.webp