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A new PNG spec

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616 points bluedel | 2 comments | 24 Jun 25 13:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.945s | 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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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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hsbauauvhabzb ◴[25 Jun 25 10:17 UTC] No.44375570[source]▶
My file manager can’t handle them but my browser can.

Edit: and good luck uploading the format to the majority of webforms that aren’t faang.

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1. account42 ◴[26 Jun 25 10:51 UTC] No.44386104[source]▶
Demand more from you file manager then.
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2. hsbauauvhabzb ◴[26 Jun 25 12:32 UTC] No.44386788[source]▶
Sure, ur then it’s my image viewer, my phones image viewer, the website I try and upload pictures to. This isn’t a problem you can solve by patching one application, and it’s not one the world as a whole cares about.

Better image formats serve entities who store images at scale, not end users.