Gracepoint After Five

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Tag archive for ‘png’

Dirty Transparency in PNG Optimization

Smashing Magazine has a great article on PNG Optimization techniques.  The dirty transparency technique is awesome, and I started running tests on our internal assets at Ask.com and Gracepoint Berkeley, and we’re seeing some significant savings.  Just when I thought PNG compression was all there was to it, Sergey Chikuyonok (the author of the article), [...]

punypng: making the web more puny, one png at a time

I finally released punypng to the world last week.  It’s a free png compression service that intelligently leverages multiple open-source png compression algorithms in the hopes of making the web  more puny, one png at a time.
Try out punypng (as a short url: http://www.punypng.com works as well)

How punypng came about
punypng actually started not as a [...]