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In my opinion PNG doesn't need fixing. Being ancient is a feature. Everything supports it. As much as I appreciate the nerdy exercise, PNG is fine as it is. My only gripe is that some software writes needlessly bloated files (like adding a useless alpha channel, when it's not needed). I wish we didn't need tools like OptiPNG etc.

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Yes. One of the best features of png is that I don't have to wonder if it's going to work somewhere. Throwing that away in favor of a bit of premature optimization seems like a big loss. Especially as this wouldn't be the only modernized image compression format out there. Why use this over, eg, lossless webp?

I don't think I have ever noticed the decode time of a png.

>I don't think I have ever noticed the decode time of a png.

When it was developed, 200 Mhz Pentium was the current tech. Back of the envelope numbers (ie. chatgpt) says my current desktop CPU (i7-14700K) decodes 7000x faster.

PNG is fully serial, no? So 7000x seems like a big over exaggeration

I assumed decoding multiple files in parallel. I think very few websites have just one PNG file.

Most of the comments on that issue are from this year.

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