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by supermatt 922 days ago
> Regardless of whether AVIF ends up being better than WebP, it’s clear that there are viable alternatives you can use today that are massive improvements over JPEG.

Friendly reminder that there is JPEG-XL which is arguably better for all cases than WebP and AVIF (and also supports progressive decoding!). Unfortunately Google (who have a vested interest in WebP and AVIF), are actively hostile towards supporting it and have outright lied about their reasoning (stating lack of interest despite thousands of developers and market-leading corps saying otherwise).