• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    I’m not under the impression it would unseat PNG anytime soon, but “we have a current standard” isn’t a good argument against it. As images get higher and higher quality, it’s going to increase the total size of images. And we are going to hit a point where it matters.

    This sounds so much like the misquoted “640K ought to be enough for anybody” that I honestly can’t take it seriously. There’s a reason new algorithms, formats and hardware are developed and released, because they improve upon the previous and generally improve things.

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      3 months ago

      My argument is not “we have a current standard”, it’s “people don’t give enough of a shit to change”.

      • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 months ago

        People don’t need to give a shit, you just need websites and servers and applications to produce and convert images to the new format and the rest will happen "by itself’

        It should be pretty much invisible to the users themselvea

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            3 months ago

            Why would you think that sysadmins and application devs wouldn’t want to use JPEG XL?

            I’m a developer and I like the format

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              3 months ago

              Because I am a developer and I have also been a sysadmin, and I really do not care. Yes, the format is good but I’m not particularly excited for it.