A new PNG spec

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.

> 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.

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.

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.

Adobe Photoshop has support for WebP (through "Save as", not "Export") but I don't think WebP is important.

But it can’t open them