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You're also overlooking the fact that they did some relatively interesting things to notice when someone posts a PNG-of-something-that-could-be-a-JPEG, and can
by gknoy 9y ago
You're also overlooking the fact that they did some relatively interesting things to notice when someone posts a PNG-of-something-that-could-be-a-JPEG, and can then use a lossy image instead of the larger PNG.
- ggambetta 9y agoI agree that that's super interesting, but it's not "without quality loss".
- WhitneyLand 9y agoHow is this a big mystery isn't pretty much everything that's user generated content a photo and everything that's a logo or brand not a photo?
- khedoros1 9y agoThey've also got to handle photos with borders, screenshots, and such, which may or may not work better as PNGs. And anyhow, why wouldn't they want to handle un-photo-like photos and un-logo-like logos optimally too?
- abritinthebay 9y agoRead the article. Short answer: no, while your image content breakdowns are accurate it's not actually that simple in practice as things like screenshots are pngs.