gutechh

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   by gutechh 1mo ago

   Thank you! I wonder if we'll ever see avif/webp takeover or if it's gonna be like ipv4/ipv6.
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   by gutechh 1mo ago

   Thanks for these! Indeed I understand your point now. I'll add a little note on the post later today. Another interesting bit is that It wasn't so easy to get an image showing the issue a clear as we had it. My hunch is that moiré
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   by gutechh 1mo ago

   Ah this is weird! My understanding is that png doesn't store the images like jpg at all, they use a palette of all the colors in the image. Then each pixel is a reference to this palette. So it's not IDCT scaling, but I imagine th
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   by gutechh 1mo ago

   Yes! for a bit of backstory, it was an internal icon on a prototype that we were polishing up. So I get why the person did it at the time, running after the svg would have been too much effort for something that might have been tossed in th
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   by gutechh 1mo ago

   Thanks, I knew it was much more efficient, but seeing the numbers in the benchmarks make me appreciate this "trick" even more!
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   by gutechh 1mo ago

   ahah, yeah surprising considering how Chrome is RAM hungry, 20mb isn't that much of a win. On another end when trying to reproduce the glitch, it was quite hard! basically invisible on photos and not all icons were affected. So it does
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   by gutechh 1mo ago

   Ah! It took a fair bit of digging to get there. Maybe I'll look into the firefox pipeline and make another post. In the mean time if anyone know the internals and how firefox does it, I'm eager to hear about it!
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   by gutechh 1mo ago

   I do prefer the firefox look too! I'd be curious to hear your take on what could be the root cause of this. I'm far from a image rendering expert. But I remember when inspecting the edges and curves of the images in a DCT visualiz
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   Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome(guillaumetech.github.io)

   339 points by gutechh 1mo ago|67 comments
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    by gutechh 2mo ago

    Maybe you read them already, but wikipedia has a bunch of interesting pages about sourcing and truth like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability,_not_t... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wi