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AshleysBrain • today at 12:39 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

That's true of WebP and AVIF as well. I think all modern image codecs have both lossy and lossless modes - the separation between JPEG for lossy and PNG for lossless seems to be a historical oddity.


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spider-mario • today at 1:06 PM

And a nominally “lossless” image may have been reencoded from a lossy source.