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PNG is back! (www.programmax.net)

After 20 years, PNG is back with renewed vigor! A new PNG spec was just released.

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 40 points 3 days ago

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

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

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

[-] xiwi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

Who would want to use a format named web-pee

[-] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

Web-pee is stored in the web-balls

[-] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 3 days ago

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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