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PNG is back! (www.programmax.net)
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After 20 years, PNG is back with renewed vigor! A new PNG spec was just released.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Never saw even one piece of your "future" in the wild...

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Happily using it for presentation slides.

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