>without the weirdness of PNG 'line based loading' which is obsolete nowdays
replyHow? Line-based loading is a very simple way to exploit 2D spatial coherence. A 1D format like gzip loses this advantage for minimal gain in simplicity.
You can’t just ignore signal compression algorithms unless you are fine allocating 4-5x more bandwidth to images.
replyI believe 7zip outdoes bzip2 these days along every metric
replyAnd lossless jpeg-xl exceeds your idea
7zip meaning what, LZMA (xz)?
replyand zstandard outdoes 7zip (LZMA)
replyThese days I favour lossless WEBP instead of PNG. I often save around 30%~40% of file size compared to PNG, especially when the PNG is encoded with lots of bits per pixel (i.e 48 bits or 24 bits).
replyI think that’s why they were advocating for gzip or bzip2 instead of just relying on PNG’s built-in compression.
replyhow about lossless JPEG XL
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