Everyone: “Stop using stuff made by Google that they make with intent of owning the web!”
Also everyone: “Don’t you understand why WEBP is the best format??”
Jxl is very cool :3
jxl gang rise up
But they were, all of them, deceived
For another format was made.
One format to rule them all, One format to find them, One format to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them; In the Land of the Bay Area where the shadows lie.
What the HEIC!?
I really like WebP. It has a super annoying issue though: Animated WebP can’t take advantage of hardware acceleration.
And the real problem there is that WebM doesn’t support looping. So if you want an auto playing, looping gif-like video you have to use WebP and thus, give up on hardware acceleration.
GIF:
Compression algorithms are magic. Especially lossless compression.
For me it’s the opposite. Lossy ones (the ones that seem to maintain quality while lowering size by a lot) are magic to me but lossless is understandable.
What do you mean “treat this image as a wave and do an inverse Fourier transform on it in order to discard the high frequency low amplitude noise”. wtf? Straight up magic.
I guess there are two kinds of magic. There is the magic of Fourrier which is lossy with funny math. But it is understandable that one can get higher compression ratios when it’s lossy. But I find it even more magic that we can still find better ways to encode images losslessly. I would have thought we had already long found the optimal way
Look at everyday things that occasionally improve. We have probably not found the optimal way for almost anything.
Most of us just are not smart enough to find a better way.
Thanks for the info about FLIF. I remember reading about it before; let’s hope it takes off like FLAC.
My dumb ass found out that FLIF “became” JXL after posting. So…
Oh, it’s right at the top of their site. Brainfart.
My computer supports JXL, read and write. Is JXL lossless?
.mng to the rescue!
