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[–] 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Except webp has worse compression, doesn't support HDR and has a max colour depth of 8bpc. What makes JPEG-XL great is that it covers loads of use cases and is very future proof.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Webp, on the other hand is "current-proof". JXL's biggest issue is getting adoption, not the technical aspects.

    The meme is right, chrome/ium support would do a lot to help adoption. But not even the mainline FF version has support (AFAIK).

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Webp is "current-useless" on account of being unsupported by a lot of software, including Google's own office suite. Just the same as jxl.

    At the end of the day, any standard or protocol that is not widely supported is de-facto useless. Some examples are: ipv4 multicast, TCP multipath, MIR, hashcash; all of this are technically valid, but nothing supports them, so it doesn't matter

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