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by Retr0id 921 days ago
I thought that too, but then the "LogoFAIL" vulnerabilities came out.[1]

It's possible to define a subset of the deflate bitstream that only does simple RLE compression, and I've done so: https://gist.github.com/DavidBuchanan314/b223bce114ec715a66f...

But, for logo/icon sized bitmaps, you can generally get away without needing compression at all. A 128x128 1bpc image is a mere 2KB.

[1] discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38515571