[ur-whale]

Mmmh.

First, not entirely sure what "goated" means, but whatever floats your boat.

Next, comparing a lossless format like PNG against a lossy format like webp ... what's the point unless all of his webp files are losslessly compressed.

Last, if one wants to dive down the lossy image format rabbit hole, then webp is definitely very old news, jpeg XL [1][2] is - for example - much more cutting edge.

Not much value in this article.

[1] https://jpeg.org/jpegxl/ [2] https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl

[dchest]

Not in this case, but comparing lossless PNG with lossy WebP makes sense because PNG is the only other format on the web that supports alpha channel. There’s no lossy format for that other than WebP.

[NavinF]

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/goated

WebP matters because it’s supported by every browser and by every image editor worth using.

We still don’t know if JPEG XL will survive or die like XR did. After all, it’s competitor AVIF already works everywhere except Safari.

[thecsw]

thank you! Yeah, I looked at those as well, but as a safari user, AVIF was just a no go and JPEG XL, looking cool though, is not adequately supported by anything (maybe just yet?)