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In the inverse, smaller images can be bigger. There's a piece of software that I interact with a lot that's always trying to save space by crushing PNGs down to
by 542458 5y ago
In the inverse, smaller images can be bigger. There's a piece of software that I interact with a lot that's always trying to save space by crushing PNGs down to smaller dimensions, but in the process can introduce a lot of new complexity to the data (by turning what were crisp pixel edges into blurs), hurting PNG compression and increasing file size.
- Eric_WVGG 5y agoYup, that makes sense. Really I find the whole topic just infuriating… so much of the bullshit we've been dealing with since the nineties, from browser incompatibilities to javascript stagnancy to CSS layout (grid, flexbox) has gotten immeasurably better over the years. I never would have imagined that we'd still be stuck with JPG/PNG forever, though. (I hope that WebP is the savior but people still seem to be waffling on it.)