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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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[–] 51 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I didn't realize it had gone anywhere. It's always my first choice.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    WebP had been kind of moving in on its turf, based on what I've been seeing websites using.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I've never heard of webP. Looked it up. Not impressed. Sticking with png.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The main advantage of webp is that it has good lossy compression, which makes it great for websites that show tens or hundreds of images on a single page

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I always used PNG where I would have used GIF. Other than that I use JPG still. I'm guessing webp is more on the JPG side of things than the GIF side?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It can do both, lossiness is toggleable.

    If you've seen a picture on Lemmy, you've almost certainly seen a WebP. A fair bit of software – most egregiously from Microsoft – refuses to decode them still, but every major browser has supported WebP for years and since superior data efficiency compared to JPG/PNG means is already very widely used on the web. Bandwidth is not that cheap.

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