Possibly the final version. Quite Okay Imaging (QOI) achieved similar compression with none of the complexity. Lossy + difference = lossless formats are surely the better option where performance is not crucial. Even the fact they fffucking finally made APNG official is decades late to replace GIF, since several image formats are now literally video formats.
The future is webp. And telling software patents to burn in hell.
That’s because Google removed the support from chrome after only a few months, and Mozilla never added it to Firefox.
And although there’s apparently an extension for both, (lossy) image formats need out of the box browser support to have any chance for any kind adoption.
Possibly the final version. Quite Okay Imaging (QOI) achieved similar compression with none of the complexity. Lossy + difference = lossless formats are surely the better option where performance is not crucial. Even the fact they fffucking finally made APNG official is decades late to replace GIF, since several image formats are now literally video formats.
The future is webp. And telling software patents to burn in hell.
The future is
webpJPEG XL…And telling software patents to burn in hell.
Never saw even one piece of your “future” in the wild…
Try this link on an iPhone: https://jpegxl.info/resources/jpeg-xl-test-page.html
Happily using it for presentation slides.
That’s because Google removed the support from chrome after only a few months, and Mozilla never added it to Firefox. And although there’s apparently an extension for both, (lossy) image formats need out of the box browser support to have any chance for any kind adoption.
As cool and impressive as Qoi is, as long as I can’t just send it to someone it’s sadly not a replacement for PNG.
Yeah, adoption’s not a feature you can design.
The general idea may show up in any extensible format. Like a PNG encoder that only does Sub filter can encounter each pixel once.
… wait, PNG filtering is byte-level? It doesn’t change with bit depth? Christ.