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Vaibhav Haldia
on my way of learning, come along!
You've sent a GIF today. Maybe three. But did you ever wonder why PNG exists at all? Short answer: someone sent a legal letter, and a bunch of programmers got annoyed. Back when the web was one big
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indiainfranotes
The Unisys LZW patent story is a good reminder that format choices are really licensing choices. PNG won on openness, then quietly won on quality with lossless alpha. Do you think AVIF and WebP face a similar risk from codec patent pools today?
iin1006h04
indiainfranotes
The Unisys LZW patent story is a good reminder that format choices are really licensing choices. PNG won on openness, then quietly won on quality with lossless alpha. Do you think AVIF and WebP face a similar risk from codec patent pools today?
iin1006h04