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PNG is back! (www.programmax.net)
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After 20 years, PNG is back with renewed vigor! A new PNG spec was just released.

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[–] 98 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Great news! PNG has always been my image format of choice due to its relatively good compression and support for transparency.

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  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    PNG has terrible compression

    It's fine if you're using it for what it's intended for, which is images with flat color or an ordered dither.

    It's not great for compressing photographs, but then, that wasn't what it was aimed at.

    Similarly, JPEG isn't great at storing flat-color lossless images, which is PNG's forte.

    Different tools for different jobs.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago*

    JPEG isn't great at storing flat-color lossless images, which is PNG's forte.

    JPEG isn’t, but JPEG-XL, on the other hand, has come into existence and has great compression while being pixel-perfect lossless as compared to PNG (among a host of other improvements).

    If only it got the support it deserves (thanks Google for making that harder)

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