This depends, if your image contains a lot of flat colours (like a screenshot of a website) then PNG can actually give you smaller file sizes than lossless webp. But for most images (especially ones with compression artefacts) lossless webp gives smaller sizes.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago (7 children)

But that’s not got anything to do with quality. That’s compression size

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 61 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Lossless encoding, by definition, won't have any quality loss.

[–] Carighan@piefed.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Watch some startup "invent" a revolutionary lossless format that discards some information.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Xerox did that ages ago.

https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning

[–] Carighan@piefed.world 4 points 1 week ago

Fuuuuuck. There goes another business idea. 😂

[–] ulterno@programming.dev -1 points 1 week ago

did that ages ago

That's the point of revolution, no?
Going back to something that was in the past, except giving it a new name and context:P

load more comments (4 replies)

load more comments (9 replies)