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A new PNG spec

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614 points bluedel | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 13:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.297s | source
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b0a04gl ◴[25 Jun 25 07:25 UTC] No.44374520[source]▶
it's more to do with the obvious economic layer underneath. you give a format new life only if there's tooling and distribution muscle behind it. adobe, apple, chrome, ffmpeg etc may not get aligned at the same time. someone somewhere wants apng/hdr/png to be a standard pipe again for creative chains; maybe because video formats are too bulky for microinteraction or maybe because svg is too unsafe in sandboxed renderers. and think onboarding of animations, embedded previews, rich avatars, system wide thumbs ; all without shipping a separate codec or runtime. every time a 'dead' format comes back, it's usually because someone needed a way around a gate
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1. ProgramMax ◴[25 Jun 25 18:14 UTC] No.44380280[source]▶
In general, I support the "follow the money" idea. But I don't think it applies here.

I'm retired and making zero money here. (I'm actually losing money on it. Wish I had a company sponsoring me for the flights and hotels for meetups.)

All participants are required to not patent any piece of it. We work hard to make sure we only reference open standards. (This one is quite tricky. We have to convince other standard orgs to make their stuff free.)

I could see the argument for getting around a gate. But fwiw I don't think that's the case :)