PNG format gets an update to support HDR images while only adding a small amount of data. Major internet browser companies, including Chrome and Firefox, already support HDR-based PNGs. Future updates ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently released an update to the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image format, one of the most popular image formats for web content. Tom’s Hardware writes that ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., ALTOONA, Pa., CHICAGO, DETROIT and PITTSBURGH — By the time we made it back to Lot 14 outside Beaver Stadium at 1:36... JPEG (or JPG) and PNG – two titans in the world of image ...

Tom Boutell is a modest guy. Considering that one of his most notable achievements is so much a part of the background of the web, figuratively and literally, maybe that character trait makes sense.

Why it matters: For decades, JPEG, PNG, and GIF have remained among the most popular image formats, even as newer options like WebP and AVIF have emerged. Now, PNG is getting its first meaningful ...

What’s inside a PNG file? Graphics, sure. But how is that graphic encoded? [Evan Hahn] shows you what goes into a single black pixel inside a 67-byte file. Why so many bytes? Well, that is exactly ...

In late 1994, controversy was brewing over royalties being imposed on GIFs due to the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) data compression technique used to underpin this image format. Unisys, which had patented ...