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Chris Lilley
Personal blog · svgees.us/blogwebdesign
Chris Lilley's personal blog at svgees.us covers web and design. Since 2022, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Coding Independent Code Points in PNG, explained”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Chris Lilley's blog, which covers PNG colour features such as the cICP chunk and HDR example images, written by one of PNG's original co-authors.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Coding Independent Code Points in PNG, explained3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-06-25
- Color.js Released2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-29
What Hacker News says?
Sure! Chris Lilley--one of the original PNG co-authors--has a post with an example HDR image: https://svgees.us/blog/cICP.html It is about half way down, with the birthday cake. Generally, us tech nerds have phones that are capable of displaying it well. So perhaps view the page on your phone. What you should look for is the cake, the pink tips in her hair, and the background being more vivid. For me, the pink in th…
Comment linking /blog/cICP.html
on “A new PNG spec”Submitted Color.js Released as a story · 151 points
HN discussionIt's a new and compatible spin. https://svgees.us/blog/img/revoy-cICP-bt.2020.png uses the important new feature and your old software can display it. More generally, PNG has a simple feature to specify what's needed. A file consists of a number of chunks, and one bit in the chunk specifies whether that chunk is required for display. All of the extensions I've seen in the past decades set that bit to "optional". For…
Comment linking /blog/img/revoy-cICP-bt.2020.png
on “A new PNG spec”Submitted Color.js Released as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWe would need a new media type. But the actual new features don't need one, because the news don't break compatibility. https://svgees.us/blog/img/revoy-cICP-bt.2020.png uses the new colour space. If your software and monitor can handle it, you see better colour than I, otherwise, you see what I see.
Comment linking /blog/img/revoy-cICP-bt.2020.png
on “A new PNG spec”Submitted Dystopia: W3C (West World WebKit Corporation) in 2024 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionReading the linked blog post on the new cICP chunk type [0], it looks like the "proper HDR support" isn't something that you couldn't already do with an embedded ICC profile, but instead a much-abbreviated form of the colorspace information suitable for small image files. [0] https://svgees.us/blog/cICP.html
Comment linking /blog/cICP.html
on “A new PNG spec”Submitted Coding Independent Code Points in PNG, explained as a story · 1 points
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