• Heavybell@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Anyone else remember when people hated PNG like they hate WEBP today, for the same reason; namely lack of wide-spread software support?

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        6 months ago

        JpegXL is definitely better overall, especially for its texture-preserving features, but it’s even less supported than webp :(

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      6 months ago

      PNG mainly lacked support from Microsoft (Internet Explorer) and Adobe (Photoshop). IE didn’t handle PNG transparency, while Photoshop had a shitty PNG implementation that tended to produce files larger than an equivalent GIF. Held back widespread adoption for almost a decade.