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Discussion on: Safari 14 ships webp support. Are we nearing the end of PNG on the web?

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Paulius Varna

Using lossy image format for preservation?

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Tim Downey

It's less about perfectly preserving the quality of the original and more about ensuring that the data remains decipherable.

Like if you're archiving something that contains charts, a pixel perfect image of the chart is no good if your device can't read the file format. But if it's a JPEG chances are you can still render and understand what it has despite any lossiness.