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PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation (www.tomshardware.com)

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[+] [email protected] -12 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

They should have let it die because nearly everything else is nowadays somehow better:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNG#Comparison_with_other_file_formats

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

did you read your own source before posting this comment?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Yes? Did you?

Example:

AVIF

AVIF is an image format developed by the Alliance for Open Media. AVIF was designed by the foundation to make up for the shortcomings of other image codecs, including PNG, GIF, and WebP.

AVIF is generally smaller in size than both WebP and PNG. AVIF supports animation while PNG does not.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

Maybe I'm just a newb, but it still looks like PNG is the goto to ensure lossless image storage.

Everything else on that list that is "better" does/can do lossy compression. I'm not sure how to force apps to use lossless compression, so to me, all those lossy-capable formats are a drawback.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago

What are u saying bro, itz still my go to option for transparency saves!, I don't exactly know the details of the update but I am happy they are showing it some love

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

I absolutely hate WebP. Worst format ever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How does this compare to nvidia JXR hdr screenshots ?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

This has a chance of being widely adopted? Lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

PNG PNG!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Jxl train choo choo

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Now if anyone don't mind explaining, PNG vs JXL?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

JXL is badly supported but it does offer lossless encoding in a more flexible and much more efficient way than png does

Basically jxl could theoretically replace png, jpg, and also exr.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Interestingly, I downloaded GNOME's pride month wallpaper to see what it looked like, and the files were JXL. Never seen them in the wild before that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Some parts of the open source world probably still desperately try to make JXL happen. This is understandable, considering its potential. Shame this wouldn't work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Why are they trying to make it happen, and why it no work? Is JXL better than PNG? Maybe I need to do some research to better learn the difference

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Animated PNG has been trying to be an extension to the PNG spec for 20+ years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Right there's actually like a select few applications that support it which is cool, but so many get confused when they see an apng file with frames.

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