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Re:PNG Is Back by bawolff on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @06:26AM (#44375636)
PNG uses deflate (same as zip) but GIF uses LZW. These are different algorithms. You should expect different compression results i would assume.
Re:PNG Is Back by account42 on Thursday June 26, 2025 @05:54AM (#44385791)
ZIP is theoretically a generic container and theoretically supports a number of different compression formats. Stored (no compression) and deflate are the only ones you can count on being supported everywhere though so in practice you're not wrong.