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by ocdtrekkie on Thursday November 03, 2022 @08:07PM
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I don't think there was ever a good case for WebP, but JPEG XL sounds promising. The problem of course, is the monopoly browser developer made WebP, and the monopoly browser developer sees JPEG XL as a competitor to their in-house format.
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That's a bizarre and unfounded accusation. Author of WebP worked on JPEG XL, and Google has shipped AVIF which includes tech from Mozilla, Nokia, and many others.
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by JyrkiAlakuijala on Friday November 04, 2022 @07:55AM
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I consider that WebP lossy was fixed to usable quality level around 2015, five years after the launch. For the first five years it had a tendency to make 4x4 pixel lego-block representations of smooth gradients and lose highly saturated colors.
8-bits per channel and YUV420 only were caused by hurrying it.
With JPEG XL we have the opposing mistake. We had a great format already in 2017, and spent 5 years more for improving it further.