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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] 6 points 5 days ago

It's great that Papua New Guinea is still receiving updates /s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Would this be the Gif killer? If PNG can contain a relatively similar frame count & time limit but with marginally better image quality it just may.

[+] [email protected] -12 points 6 days 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 6 days ago (1 children)

did you read your own source before posting this comment?

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

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] 2 points 5 days ago

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

The lossless mode in AVIF is so bad that a BMP in a ZIP file produces smaller results.

Which makes sense, as it doesn't actually have a dedicated lossless mode (like WebP does), the encoder is just to not quantise the video data it produces.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days 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] 11 points 6 days 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 6 days ago (1 children)

I absolutely hate WebP. Worst format ever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What's wrong with webp? It support animation, lossless compression, lossy compression and transparency. Animation has a smaller size than gif.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I hate that you can’t right click copy images, it always wants to share as a link. Plus some other issues when sharing, but it’s just such a pain in the ass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

To ELI5 this, this happens when whoever made the webpage put a text layer above the image - probably on purpose to make it harder for people to download the image.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

That’d be the browser’s (or whatever app you’re using) fault, not the format. I guess you could choose to hate it for poor support.

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

How does this compare to nvidia JXR hdr screenshots ?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

This has a chance of being widely adopted? Lol

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

PNG PNG!

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