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there has to be a use case?

• sjs 16y ago
  Of course not! But if there's no use case then this is getting an awful lot of buzz for no real reason other than Ajaxian running a story on it, considering that it's not that new. http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/05/compression-using-canvas-and-png.html http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/05/compression-using-canvas-an... It's been on reddit or hacker news before, this year iirc.
  • noodle 16y ago
    as the ajaxian article stated, i believe that people are trying to make use of it to squeeze the most out of the size-limited javascript contests that are out there. but, i've not seen an entry that does yet (haven't looked that hard though).
    • bmelton 16y ago
      I think js10k limits entries to those only readable in UTF-8 which, I believe, a PNG (compressed or uncompressed) does not meet.