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Icon files are uncompressed bitmaps, and in good tradition Windows features 32-bit and 16-bit versions. And Windows contains a lot of icons, just look at shell3
by sebazzz 7y ago
Icon files are uncompressed bitmaps, and in good tradition Windows features 32-bit and 16-bit versions. And Windows contains a lot of icons, just look at shell32.dll or imageres.dll for instance. Still, it is probably part of the reason.
- perl4ever 7y agoI've never developed a "real" application for Windows, so I didn't know this off the top of my head, but it appears that compressed PNG format has been supported for icons since Vista, which came out in like 2007. See: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=12473 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=12473