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File size I imagine. Typically, a PNG will be 4 or 5x the size of a low/mid quality jpg. 31kb vs 150kb when you're delivering a bazillion pages makes a differen
by drzaiusapelord 12y ago
File size I imagine. Typically, a PNG will be 4 or 5x the size of a low/mid quality jpg. 31kb vs 150kb when you're delivering a bazillion pages makes a difference if you don't have the bandwidth.
Granted, that seems quaint nowadays, but maybe MS doesn't give two shits about making sure the blogs have the bandwidth and resources they need for nicer looking graphics.
- squeaky-clean 12y agoActually, for pictures of text, a PNG is usually 1/2 or 1/3 the size of a jpeg. Try taking a screenshot of a hacker new's comment section and saving it as PNG or jpeg and check the results.
- spaceoff 12y agoActually, for images with very few colours (such as screenshots), PNG usually has significantly smaller file sizes than JPEG...
- frankydp 12y agoOr they could use WebP and get the best of both worlds. O wait...http://status.modern.ie/?term=webp http://status.modern.ie/?term=webp
- pornel 12y agoor an ISO/ITU-T standard: JPEG-XR, which they do support already? http://ie.microsoft.com/TEStdrive/Graphics/ImageSupport/Default.html http://ie.microsoft.com/TEStdrive/Graphics/ImageSupport/Defa...