JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip

TL:DW, JPEG is getting old in the tooth, which prompted the creation of JPEG XL, which is a fairly future-proof new compression standard that can compress images to the same file size or smaller than regular JPEG while having massively higher quality.

However, JPEG XL support was removed from Google Chrome based browsers in favor of AVIF, a standalone image compression derived from the AV1 video compression codec that is decidedly not future-proof, having some hard-coded limitations, as well as missing some very nice to have features that JPEG XL offers such as progressive image loading and lower hardware requirements. The result of this is that JPEG XL adoption will be severely hamstrung by Google’s decision, which is ultimately pretty lame.

Without jpeg compression artifacts how the hell are we supposed to know which memes are fresh and which memes are vintage???

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Nobody remember JPEG2000 ?!?

Wasn't there a licensing issue with jpeg xl for using Microsoft's some sort of algo?

bring back bmp and tiff cowards

I'll just revert to .IFF

do I look like I know what a jay peg is?

There were 14 competing standards.

There are now 13 competing standards.

And that's fine by me.

WHY IS NO ONE STANDING UP FOR GIF?!

as a .png elitist i see this as a good thing.

Is chrome modular enough to make it feasible for Edge and other Chrome based browsers to add support for jpegxl themselves?

TLDR how is that bad?