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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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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everyone, go update your 2003 forum avatars.

My friend, most people weren’t using PNG in 2003, especially for forum avatars. They were glitchy on browsers (IE) for almost a decade after that.

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

    Even if they did, PNGs are usually a bigger filesize, and forums in 2003 usually had a fairly low filesize limit for avatars.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    For images with large blocks of solid colors and no gradients, frequently the opposite is true. Screenshots and avatars with solid(transparent) backgrounds are often smaller as png.

    It drives me nuts seeing things like tweets (white and black text) being shared with crazy jpeg artifacting. They'd be so much smaller and so much less ugly as png

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