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Maintenance of the PNG specification
7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2021-12-16 · latest 2025-08-05
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…As noted in the relevant issue [1], we will need a new media type at the very least. [1] https://github.com/w3c/png/issues/39#issuecomment-2674690324
comment by lifthrasiir · 2025-06-25 · in A new PNG spec -
…but I know that the restart marker proposal exists which I believe tries something very similar: https://github.com/w3c/png/issues/60 //EDIT: also Apple is assumed to have an extension that does something similar:…
comment by the_mitsuhiko · 2024-09-20 · in Parallel PNG Proposal (2021) -
…I believe that Apple have an unofficial PNG extension that facilitates multi-threaded decoding: https://github.com/w3c/PNG-spec/issues/45
comment by nigeltao · 2022-11-03 · in The case for JPEG XL -
…In all fairness, that is not even in the specification although there is discussion to add it. https://github.com/w3c/PNG-spec/issues/26 The one that was specified was MNG but it was a different format and practically no one used it since…
comment by spider-mario · 2021-12-24 · in QOI – The “Quite OK Image Format” for fast, lossless image compression -
…in an isolated thread. There are ongoing discussions as to how this metadata could be standardised: https://github.com/w3c/PNG-spec/issues/54
comment by Retr0id · 2021-12-16 · in PNG Parser Differential