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A new lossy/lossless image format for photos and the internet
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PIK as a Web Image format (small sizes/non-photographic) not adding anything #35

Closed wolfbeast closed 6 years ago

wolfbeast commented 6 years ago

Web graphics also tend to not be photographic and/or small size, which would be once again in the realm of WebP for photographic or PNG for drawn images, or even entering the vector graphics area.

jyrkialakuijala commented 6 years ago

Disclaimer: I cleaned up the bug topic to have only one topic of discussion.

https://speedcurve.com/blog/web-performance-page-bloat/ show that images are an important part of a modern website. Let's make them smaller in byte size and decode faster, and the use of internet gets faster.

wolfbeast commented 6 years ago

Well, I'm not sure why you asked me to open separate issues for the discussion topics if they are going to be summarily dismissed, anyway, with some generic statement about "the speed of the internet"!

For web graphics, PIK clearly won't satify your "smaller in byte size and decode faster", which makes it once again a topic to discuss. If you close this topic then it's clear that you conclude PIK should not be used for web graphics. That's 1 of 3 points where PIK fails.

IMHO, PIK seems to not serve ANY purpose (and should not be developed further) if it fails at all 3 points touched on in #33.