• Dumhuvud
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    2 months ago

    Webp currently the best image file format.

    Out of the widely supported ones, it’s quite good, yeah. Overall, I’d say JPEG XL is the better one. Ironically, only Safari supports it out of the box. Firefox requires a Nightly version with tweaking in about:config. Chrome used to have a feature flag, but has since removed it.

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      2 months ago

      I think compatibility was also being taken into account here. When not looking at compatibility, JXL is the best hands down. It’s criminal how little software supports it.

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      2 months ago

      The website mentions

      Migrating to JPEG XL reduces storage costs because servers can store a single JPEG XL file to serve both JPEG and JPEG XL clients.

      Does anyone know how that works?

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        2 months ago

        I assume, decoding it on the fly? It’s possible to encode a JPEG as a JPEG XL losslessly.