I’m a little out of the loop on webp. What makes it problematic?
A lot of things don’t support it yet, but it’s technically a better compression format
Better than JPEGxl?
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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.
Google dropped support for it in favour of avif, just so they can push their own shit again.
JPEG XL’s name sucks, tho. Nothing’s perfect.
just call it JXL like a normal person
How are we saying that out loud? “Jexel”?
jayexell
If it’s anything like .gif, fuckers will insist on pronouncing it as “Gexel”
Is this “the sound you make when you get your sexual organs trapped in something”?
better compression that’s often configured wrong by site admins and the quality is shit-tier.
Not really.
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.
Yea I have nothing against WebP myself. I also wish HEIC was more widely supported
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.
Oh didn’t know that, that sucks
WebP is in no way new
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.
Not really though
