Free Lossless Image Format with Jon Sneyers

“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?

Links

• FLIF
• FLIF Compression Benchmarks
• WebP
• Jon on Twitter

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