09-24-2011, 02:29 PM
(09-24-2011, 01:37 PM)Ultimecia Wrote: Man, what's the problem in saving the file as .zip or .rar instead of .7z? It's just a mouse click away in my case"It's just as easy to save as a PNG; why should I support GIFs?"
In addition to some of the things that people have been saying, yes, the file formats are compressed. However, compression also can be applied to multiple files that contain similar parts. In addition, PNGs don't HAVE to be compressed, although, they can be. I know for a fact that MS Paint exports PNGs that can easily be compressed by at least 20%.
The rationale behind adding 7z is to allow support for a higher-compression format like RAR that isn't RAR. If you're going to support RAR, support 7z, too. Otherwise, just use ZIP.