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A new PNG spec

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618 points bluedel | 2 comments | 24 Jun 25 13:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.987s | source
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ksec ◴[25 Jun 25 11:10 UTC] No.44375919[source]▶
It is just a spec on something widely implemented already.

Assuming Next gen PNG will still require new decoder. They could just call it PNG2.

JPEG-XL already provides everything most people asked for a lossless codec. If there are any problems it is its encoding and decoding speed and resources.

Current champion of Lossless image codec is HALIC. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38990568

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illiac786 ◴[25 Jun 25 13:38 UTC] No.44377213[source]▶
> If there are any problems it is its encoding and decoding speed and resources.

And this will improve over time, like jpg encoders and decoders did.

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1. account42 ◴[26 Jun 25 08:57 UTC] No.44385515[source]▶
Or it won't like JPEG 2000 encoders didn't.
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2. illiac786 ◴[26 Jun 25 12:07 UTC] No.44386595[source]▶
I mean, if jxl becomes mainstream, of course.