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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by bapak on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @11:24PM (#44306402)
When does a format stop being new? WebP was introduced fifteen years ago.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by graealex on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @10:19AM (#44310142)
When it's widely adopted.

WebP gets pushed into your series of tubes without your consent, and the browser that you're most likely to use to view them just happens to be made by the same company that invented the codec. It's DivX and Real Media all over again.

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