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Re:Is WebP really better than JPEG? by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:07PM (#23616866)
> people insist on the same quality with lesser size.

Because a great proportion of people browsing the web have slow connections and/or data caps.

> How about more quality and the same filesize?

We're already able to get acceptable quality.

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Re:Is WebP really better than JPEG? by gsich on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @07:49PM (#23621960)
>Because a great proportion of people browsing the web have slow connections and/or data caps.

That doesn't matter one bit. See "webpages are doom".

>We're already able to get acceptable quality.

Apparently not when some examples are worse.

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Re:Is WebP really better than JPEG? by Narishma on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @06:26AM (#23626283)
Maybe it's just me but I couldn't tell the difference between the comparison images in the article without zooming in a bunch.
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