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Re:Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from imag... by manigandham on Thursday July 14, 2016 @09:04PM (#12098363)
It also loads progressively and has a novel feature that lets a client determine how much detail to render, then stop loading any more data, all while using the same file.

http://flif.info/example.html

Re:Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from imag... by usrusr on Friday July 15, 2016 @07:14AM (#12100145)
This would be a totally awesome feature if the quality of a truncated FLIF came anywhere close to files tailored to that size in “real“ lossy formats. Unfortunately, according to that example page, truncated FLIF falls far behind. It might find a niche where data reduction and scale reduction fall together (the last example)