Chromium JPEG XL just changed to “Untriaged” for evaluation

Re:Chromium JPEG XL just changed to “Untriaged” for evaluation by jsnell on Monday August 07, 2023 @12:23PM (#37036583)

Right, WebP was almost certainly a mistake in hindsight. Whatever advantages it had weren't worth a decade of ecosystem fragmentation. Isn't learning from mistakes and not repeating them a good thing?

I don't think AVIF is a good example of this though. All major browser makers were members of the consortium that created AVIF.

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Re:Chromium JPEG XL just changed to “Untriaged” for evaluation by brucethemoose2 on Monday August 07, 2023 @01:24PM (#37037575)

On the contrary, the webp push didn't really hurt anything... there were (IIRC) no major exploits related to it, and it sees some use. I wouldn't say it was a mistake.

But it was a tremendous amount of effort and promotion on Google's end for a relatively narrow format.

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Re:Chromium JPEG XL just changed to “Untriaged” for evaluation by TeaDude on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @03:13AM (#37045547)

I would seriously disagree. Plenty of CMSes switched all their photos to webp resulting in a huge loss in quality.

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