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JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 months ago by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 16 points 3 months ago (15 children)

Existing browsers and apps can’t render jpegXL without adding a new decoder.

Why is that a negative?

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

https://xkcd.com/927/

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

The video actually references that comic at the end.

But I don't see how that applies in your example, since both JPEG and JPEG XL existing in parallel doesn't really have any downsides, it'd just be nice to have the newer option available. The thrust of the video is that Google is kneecapping JPEG XL in favor of their own format, which is not backwards compatible with JPEG in any capacity. So we're getting a brand new format either way, but a monopoly is forcing a worse format.

[–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The other thing is, disk space and internet speeds just keep getting cheaper so... Why change just for disk space?

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

The bottom line.

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