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A new PNG spec

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614 points bluedel | 2 comments | 24 Jun 25 13:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.471s | 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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1. LocalH ◴[25 Jun 25 13:18 UTC] No.44376999[source]▶
I miss the days of old Amiga OS 3.x, where you had installable "DataTypes" that any program could make use of. If we had that, then all such programs could at least be updated to basic compatibility by simply updating the datatype.
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2. account42 ◴[26 Jun 25 11:09 UTC] No.44386192[source]▶
All operating systems support some kind of shared libraries and plugin architecture.