Wow a Weissman score of 2.89!
Pretty pointless, just use avif which is also open source and royalty free. Avif will be faster across the board with hardware support already added to all major vendors for av1
JPEG XL sound interesting. Maybe I missed it but why did Google drop support?
The TLDR summary is that AVIF was going to be the next generation standard for image formats but when JPEG-XL released with a near identical feature-set, better quality compression, and backwards compatibility with JPEG, the tech world put its support behind JPEG-XL.
Naturally, Google as one of AVIF’s creators was unhappy that the standard they control looks like it will lose the format war and so they decided to use their web monopoly to kill JPEG-XL in the cradle by killing support for it in Chrome around a few months ago.
While this has slowed JPEG-XL’s momentum by a lot, even the other co-creators of AVIF like Apple, Meta, and Microsoft are still putting their support behind JPEG-XL and it seems like they would rather force JPEG-XL adoption themselves than go back to AVIF.
I am going crazy or was this not posted a few days ago?
I am not crazy it was posted 3 days ago with the same title. Why? https://lemm.ee/post/1629469
I guess it’s hardly surprising it would have the same title, considering it’s the title of the article. Just a case of someone not seeing the first post before sharing it again, kind of natural.
Maybe eventually users could be given a warning of the sort “This link has already been posted in this community. Are you sure you want to share it?”.
I assure you I am not a repost bot. I saw the article on hackernews and thought it was worth sharing
This is the first I’ve heard of the JPEG XL format, but it sounds pretty good!
Hopefully it doesn’t get misused by websites to mangle lossless compressed images with so much compression they’re barely visible to save a few kilobytes, though.
