WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
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WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
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Re: WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
#2I clearly have "non-educated eyes" as I can't see any meaningful differences personally.
Re: WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
#3It's such a shame Google decided to block adoption of JPEG XL: it's a strict improvement over classic JPEG (you can losslessly reencode JPEG to JXL and reduce the size, due to a better entropy coder in JXL!) and JXL has various other upgrades compared to 'classic' JPEG.
In the meantime, let's hope AVIF or whatever manages to pick up the slack, and/or other browsers decide en masse to support JPEG XL anyway; that would be a bad look for Google, especially if even Apple decides to join in on the JXL party.
Re: WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
#4I opened the first two pictures in separate tabs and switched quickly between them. There is zero difference. Tried it on two different monitors, Chrome and Firefox. Same with the pictures of the guy at the end.
EDIT: The last comparison is webp twice, he linked it wrong. Here is the jpg one, still no difference:
https://eng.aurelienpierre.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/20...
Re: WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
#5It's such a shame Google decided to block adoption of JPEG XL: it's a strict improvement over classic JPEG (you can losslessly reencode JPEG to JXL and reduce the size, due to a better entropy coder in JXL!) and JXL has various other upgrades compared to 'classic' JPEG. In the meantime, let's hope AVIF or whatever manages to pick up the slack, and/or other browsers decide en masse to support JPEG XL anyway; that woul…
Apple already has! Safari has Jpeg XL enabled by default.
Re: WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
#6I know this is not constructive and I'm sorry, but I just can't read the text with those st and ct ligatures. It makes me feel like the author is trolling with them and I shouldn't take the text seriously. I know that's an exaggeration but that's what the design makes me feel.
Re: WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
#7It's such a shame Google decided to block adoption of JPEG XL: it's a strict improvement over classic JPEG (you can losslessly reencode JPEG to JXL and reduce the size, due to a better entropy coder in JXL!) and JXL has various other upgrades compared to 'classic' JPEG. In the meantime, let's hope AVIF or whatever manages to pick up the slack, and/or other browsers decide en masse to support JPEG XL anyway; that woul…
I must admit, I'm not sure why JPEG XL is viewed so favourably on HN, it's not something I know a ton about, but my understanding is that the big advantage of AVIF is that you can reuse hardware decoders built into devices for AV1 for the images.
It being a strict improvement over JPEG is nice for the developers not having to go back to the source image for an upgrade, but that seems like a pretty small benefit that only matters during the transitional period.
Meanwhile, if you are getting better battery life every time someone views an AVIF image, that's a huge benefit for the entire lifetime of the format, it seems to massively outweigh any advantage JXL has, to me.
Re: WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
#8I know this is not constructive and I'm sorry, but I just can't read the text with those st and ct ligatures. It makes me feel like the author is trolling with them and I shouldn't take the text seriously. I know that's an exaggeration but that's what the design makes me feel.
It does really mess up the typography
Re: WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
#9I clearly have "non-educated eyes" as I can't see any meaningful differences personally.
Same here. Especially considering the ones supposedly "look like shit".
The whole thing reads like a no-so-subtle brag about how his mighty photographer's eye can spot details that mere mortals can't.
Re: WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
#10I know this is not constructive and I'm sorry, but I just can't read the text with those st and ct ligatures. It makes me feel like the author is trolling with them and I shouldn't take the text seriously. I know that's an exaggeration but that's what the design makes me feel.
It's like that tiktok voice when used in technical demos. Just can't focus on anything else.