After 20 years, PNG is back with renewed vigor! A new PNG spec was just released.

After 20 years, PNG is back with renewed vigor! A new PNG spec was just released.

    • Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de
      23·
      2 days ago

      The main advantage of webp is that it has good lossy compression, which makes it great for websites that show tens or hundreds of images on a single page

      • realitista@lemmy.world
        2·
        22 hours ago

        I always used PNG where I would have used GIF. Other than that I use JPG still. I’m guessing webp is more on the JPG side of things than the GIF side?

        • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          12 hours ago

          It can do both, lossiness is toggleable.

          If you’ve seen a picture on Lemmy, you’ve almost certainly seen a WebP. A fair bit of software – most egregiously from Microsoft – refuses to decode them still, but every major browser has supported WebP for years and since superior data efficiency compared to JPG/PNG means is already very widely used on the web. Bandwidth is not that cheap.