3 ms·

How often do you need lossless images on the web? Almost never.

• pferde 11y ago
  If the compression is good enough, always. Lossy compression was born out of necessity, after all.
  • matzipan 11y ago
    It was not born out of necessity. It was born because of the way your brain percieves the images. There is no need in adding detail if your brain can live happily without it. And if FLIF achieves such great lossless compression, imagine what amazing compression you can achieve with lossy compression.
    • pferde 11y ago
      Let's take a step back. Why did developers start to think about how the brain perceives details and how to trick it in the first place? Out of a necessity to save bandwidth and/or storage space.
      • matzipan 11y ago
        You have a point. But I also like fast, snappy websites :P
• pmontra 11y ago
  All those animated GIFs around the web, plus the images were JPEG artefacts would be noticed. Examples: The Y logo in the top left of this page is a GIF. All the logos at http://www.ycombinator.com/ http://www.ycombinator.com/ plus the six images below More Quotes are PNGs.
  • matzipan 11y ago
    Forgot PNG is lossless :P