After 20 years, PNG is back with renewed vigor! A new PNG spec was just released.
  • comfy@lemmy.ml
    8·
    24 hours ago

    In fact, it should still be the default unless you need something it doesn’t support or really need to reduce file size.

    I disagree. It is wasteful (we’re talking ~30% savings with lossless WebP or JPEG-XL) and widely misused, which matters at the massive scale of the Internet with technically inexperienced people making up plenty of those images.

    • ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialEnglish
      92·
      20 hours ago

      Congratulations, your noob user is now using JPEG-XL. It’s not working on old devices, or any mainstream browser besides Safari. The less mature library also has a bug that allows for RCE and now everyone is running a cryptominer.

      Now you say, but webp is supported everywhere, so let’s go with that. Now the noob is using wepb for a bunch of rasterised vector graphics with 4 or 5 flat colors, and he’s wasting more disk space than before.

      So I repeat, if you need one size fits all, PNG is better, it works everywhere, and it’s even more efficient in cases where lossless graphics matter the most.

      • comfy@lemmy.ml
        9·
        20 hours ago

        Now the noob is using wepb for a bunch of rasterised vector graphics with 4 or 5 flat colors, and he’s wasting more disk space than before.

        I just tested with this image:

        Default GIMP WebP export settings (90% quality): 88.8 kB

        Lossless WebP mode: 85.6 kB

        Default GIMP PNG export settings (compression level 9): 189.8 kB

        So I don’t trust this claim unless you have some evidence.