Free Lossless Image Format with Jon Sneyers

Free Lossless Image Format

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“If you want to use the newest technology, there is always a segment of viewers that will not be able to view the website well.”

Free Lossless Image Format (FLIF) is a novel lossless image format which outperforms PNG, lossless WebP, lossless BPG and lossless JPEG2000 in terms of compression ratio.

Jon Sneyers is one of the core contributors to FLIF.

Questions

  • Why is image compression so important?
  • What is FLIF?
  • What is progressive decoding?
  • How did you come up with maniac compression?
  • Why don’t we see more webp images on the internet?
  • What are the differences between Webp and FLIF?

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