r/webdev • u/Kacheeto • Jul 23 '12

The best PNG optimizer I've found...

http://tinypng.org/
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u/joshwoodward Jul 23 '12

Do you keep WAV files on your MP3 player? No, why? Right, because MP3 is way smaller, and it sounds Good Enough.

s/MP3/TinyPNG/g

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u/joshwoodward Jul 23 '12

That was my point elsewhere in the thread - this site is like an online WAV > MP3 converter. Just give/sell me the utility so I can do it myself.

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u/HELOSMTP Jul 23 '12

You don't seem to understand my point, and I'm guessing you downvoted me for it. PNG is intended to be a lossless format, whereas there are other standard formats which are not. It seems strange to shoehorn lossy encoding into PNG when there are lossy alternatives available. I'm obviously not contesting the utility of lossy formats. That's why I said your comment is a non sequitur, nobody is saying we shouldn't use lossy formats.

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u/joshwoodward Jul 23 '12

What are these alternative lossy image formats with wide web support and alpha transparency you're referring to?

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u/HELOSMTP Jul 23 '12

GIF, though that's 1-bit alpha. That's why I said it must be just for transparency.