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Squoosh: Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser

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Re: Squoosh: Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser

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Post by dmos62 »

throwGuardian wrote: post #7
vladdanilov wrote: post #5

Squoosh does not use best-in-class codecs [1]. Lossless PNG compression is 5-15% worse on average and lossy PNG compression (color quantization) is limited to PNG-8, which is not enough to maintain image quality. Lossy JPEG compression is only tuned for 4:2:0 chroma subsampling and causes blurring of fine details because trellis quantization is guided simply by the variance in DCT domain. [1] https://optimage.app/ben…

It's marketing hyperbole, no one really believes it's the absolute best-in-class. The idea of this open source app from Google is to demonstrate a real world use case of porting legacy native code to the web via webassembly

The quality of a codec is easy to measure, and saying that it measures higher than others is not a hyperbole, but a lie. If you take something that's hard to compare, like developer effectiveness, and say he's the best, then it can be called a hyperbole.

Re: Squoosh: Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser

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Post by big_chungus »

Eikon wrote: post #10
Synaesthesia wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try hackintosh it’s great fun if you like OS X

If you are a masochist, it’s for sure fun. If not, you really won’t like your installation constantly breaking, not being updatable without great trouble and just not being able to be relied upon in general. Not to mention this is illegal.

It's a TOS violation, and Apple does make things like imessage a pain, but it's not illegal, provided you got the installer from the mac store and not off the internet.

Re: Squoosh: Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser

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Post by downerending »

MrEldritch wrote: post #4
Joyfield wrote: post #2

mb != MB.

Given that literally nobody has ever needed, nor will they ever need, to talk about file sizes in millibits , there is no ambiguity involved.

I wonder what the transmission rate of information through genetic evolution is.

Re: Squoosh: Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser

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Post by wtmt »

Tomte wrote: post #8
vladdanilov wrote: post #5

Squoosh does not use best-in-class codecs [1]. Lossless PNG compression is 5-15% worse on average and lossy PNG compression (color quantization) is limited to PNG-8, which is not enough to maintain image quality. Lossy JPEG compression is only tuned for 4:2:0 chroma subsampling and causes blurring of fine details because trellis quantization is guided simply by the variance in DCT domain. [1] https://optimage.app/ben…

I tested it yesterday, and it seems good enough for me. I'd love to use ImageOptim, but I don't have a Mac, and the web plans are too expensive for optimizing maybe two images every three months.

You could try the online version of Imageoptim (with not as many options) here:

https://imageoptim.com/online

Re: Squoosh: Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser

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Post by sansnomme »

downerending wrote: post #27
MrEldritch wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given that literally nobody has ever needed, nor will they ever need, to talk about file sizes in millibits , there is no ambiguity involved.

I wonder what the transmission rate of information through genetic evolution is.

Kilo base pairs among other things.

Re: Squoosh: Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser

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Post by Tomte »

wtmt wrote: post #28
Tomte wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tested it yesterday, and it seems good enough for me. I'd love to use ImageOptim, but I don't have a Mac, and the web plans are too expensive for optimizing maybe two images every three months.

You could try the online version of Imageoptim (with not as many options) here: https://imageoptim.com/online

Thank you!

Is that even linked from somewhere on the ImageOptim site?

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