After 20 years, PNG is back with renewed vigor! A new PNG spec was just released.
  • ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialEnglish
    91·
    12 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
      8·
      11 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.