Comment on PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation
carrylex@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They should have let it die because nearly everything else is nowadays somehow better:
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.
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
I absolutely hate WebP. Worst format ever.
What’s wrong with webp? It support animation, lossless compression, lossy compression and transparency. Animation has a smaller size than gif.
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.
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.
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.
pyre@lemmy.world 9 months ago
did you read your own source before posting this comment?
carrylex@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yes? Did you?
Example:
The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 9 months ago
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.