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gutechh
132karma·10submissions·July 29, 2026
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Thank you! I wonder if we'll ever see avif/webp takeover or if it's gonna be like ipv4/ipv6.
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Thanks for these! Indeed I understand your point now. I'll add a little note on the post later today. Another interesting bit is that It wasn't so easy to get an image showing the issue a cl…
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Ah this is weird! My understanding is that png doesn't store the images like jpg at all, they use a palette of all the colors in the image. Then each pixel is a reference to this palette. So it…
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Yes! for a bit of backstory, it was an internal icon on a prototype that we were polishing up. So I get why the person did it at the time, running after the svg would have been too much effort for som…
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Thanks, I knew it was much more efficient, but seeing the numbers in the benchmarks make me appreciate this "trick" even more!
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ahah, yeah surprising considering how Chrome is RAM hungry, 20mb isn't that much of a win. On another end when trying to reproduce the glitch, it was quite hard! basically invisible on photos and…
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Ah! It took a fair bit of digging to get there. Maybe I'll look into the firefox pipeline and make another post. In the mean time if anyone know the internals and how firefox does it, I'm ea…
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I do prefer the firefox look too! I'd be curious to hear your take on what could be the root cause of this. I'm far from a image rendering expert. But I remember when inspecting the edges an…
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Maybe you read them already, but wikipedia has a bunch of interesting pages about sourcing and truth like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability,_not_t... and ht…