• N-E-N@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    A lot of things don’t support it yet, but it’s technically a better compression format

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      1 year ago

      This is how every new thing starts though. You don’t just get better standards overnight. Jpg and png didn’t happen overnight either. PNG had this problem for quite a while.

      It’s not a problem with WebP. It’s a problem with tooling that aren’t moving forwards to objectively more effective formats.

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        1 year ago

        Yea I have nothing against WebP myself. I also wish HEIC was more widely supported

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          1 year ago

          HEIC now has a licensing cost to it, meaning devs have to pay to make their software able to open it. Microsoft recently removed HEIC support from their software because of it.

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          It came out in the past 15 years. Most “common” formats like png and jpg came out in the 90s. Others like tif, bmp, and gif are from the 80s.

          So yeah, it is “new”, it’s just very relative.

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      1 year ago

      better compression that’s often configured wrong by site admins and the quality is shit-tier.

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        Nope. JPEG XL is more modern and delivers lower file sizes without fucking up image quality as much. Downside is that, right now, JPEG XL is actually supported by even less things, because it is still so new.

        But it is an industry standard rather than just Google trying to push its own thing, so I do expect it to overtake WebP in a few years.