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If you are one of those people who actively uses webp, i hope you get cancer in your nails.

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@Inginsub and don't get me started on people who use HEIC or AVIF

@hideki @Inginsub jpegxl is superior to either even by their own metrics. Too bad google pushes for inferior formats because of NIH.
@applejack @Inginsub @hideki Long time ago. The only obstacle is adoption by browsers, whose backing companies are suffering from NIH and peddling own failing bullshit.

@iamtakingiteasy @Inginsub @hideki >ISO/IEC 18181-1:2022

Nigga, that's this year. Since it's finally out though I should look at adding it to my software

JXL is cool but as of yet nothing supports it so it's not as useable as webp. I'll start adding it to my stuff though, at least as an optional feature

@applejack @Inginsub @hideki The spec itself was finalized long before that, most software started supporting it around 2010-2015.

@iamtakingiteasy @Inginsub @hideki Last year when I looked at it Gimp didn't even support it without an extension. Tested it now and works

It's getting there. Much better than I expected tbh

@iamtakingiteasy @Inginsub @hideki Wtf. Since when do you need to buy ISO standards. At least with png/webp it's formally open

@applejack @Inginsub @hideki Since the beginning, I think. There is famously no public spec for C or C++ for example, only a bunch of drafts, and ISO reference costs something about $200-300. But where is indexing, there is a way.

@iamtakingiteasy @Inginsub @hideki There is an ISO C. Never new they were payed though, somehow

Early C "spec" was basically just K&R though

@applejack @Inginsub @hideki My memory is failing me. What I remember was actually a number of use-flags for gentoo/funtoo around that time under similar names, but those was either patchsets to libjpeg or jpeg-turbo, adding support. libjxl is indeed a reference for more formalized superset of same features and will only scheduled to complete standardization this year. Referenced spec is just the encoding details, file format is currently under way and there will also be docs for compliance and reference implementations.

@iamtakingiteasy @Inginsub @hideki Ye the docs rn don't look great. The API is documented but idk what it wants. I'll hold off for now

@Drozdovsky @iamtakingiteasy @hideki the compression artifacts with JPEG2000 look worse than with the original JPEG, which is quite an achievement
@Drozdovsky @Inginsub @hideki it was an attempt to introduce new modes of encoding, including lossless extensions, but never went far
@hideki webp niggers be like "i love it when my pictures lack thumbnails and i have to rely solely on the filename"

@lina @hideki Use functional software

Proprietary niggas when they don't have /usr/share/thumbnailers/

@applejack @hideki "WebP is an image file format developed by Google intended as a replacement for JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats."
YOU WILL NEVER MAKE ME DRINK CORN SYRUP
I HATE THE ANTICHRIST
I HATE THE ANTICHRIST

@lina @hideki It's an open format with a FOSS library

They gain literally nothing from you using it, you just gain yourself

@applejack @hideki I REFUSE TO USE ANYTHING BRANDED WITH THE ANTICHRIST'S SEAL
DEATH UPON GOOGLE AND THOSE WHO SPREAD ITS CURSED SEED THROUGHOUT THE WARP REALM

@lina @hideki I'm gonna wager you still use YouTube and/or Android

@applejack @hideki i haven't used a smartphone in months and there's nothing left on youtube for me to use it

@hideki only the highest quality png possible.

Webp seems to be good for longer/higher quality gifs though

@hideki It has much better lossless compression than png and on functional operating systems it just werks with everything. Pngs were invented in the 90s as a FOSS competitor to gif that's hardly better than bziping raw image data

It's easy to integrate into software because it has a sane C API. It takes 1 function calls to do what takes libpng 50 lines of code

It's objectively good. Software not supporting it is a fault in the software

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