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frozenport on June 15, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Favicon bug

Is storing data as bits insane? For a 32x32 image, jpg overhead becomes significant.

Dylan16807 on June 15, 2015 [–]

Why would you use JPG for something that should be pixel-art?

But it's not really that bad. Well under 200 bytes of overhead for 1000 pixels. PNG has under 50 bytes of overhead.

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