Fans of the spec bemoan lack of transparency in Interop 2024 process
  • Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced Interop 2024, a project to promote web browser interoperability.
  • JPEG XL, a potential replacement for JPEG and PNG image formats, was not included in Interop 2024.
  • The rejection of JPEG XL has been blamed on Google, with the Google Chrome team deciding not to support the image compression technology.

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  • exocortexEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’ve read a comparison of several newer file formats (avif, heic, webp) with jpeg-xl. The conclusion was that jpeg-xl was on par in terms of compression, sometimes better and very fast. also it can re-compress jpgs directly.

    here’s an article describing it https://cloudinary.com/blog/the-case-for-jpeg-xl

    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The big thing, to me, is that it can losslessly encode JPEGs, the dominant format for allllll sorts of archived images. That’s huge for migration of images that don’t necessarily exist in any other format.

      Plus, as I understand it, JPEG XL performs better at those video-derived formats at lossless high resolution applications relating to physical printing and scanning workflows, or encoding in new or custom color spaces. It’s designed to work in a broader set of applications than the others, beyond just web images in a browser.