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by dingdingdang 366 days ago
This article* makes the case for mozjpeg cleanly beating webp when we are above 500x500px image sizes. So. There's a lot more performance/compression to be gained within the jpeg container format than people generally argue for.

* https://siipo.la/blog/is-webp-really-better-than-jpeg

edit: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/04/introducing-jpegli... is likely the real GOAT when it comes to modern jpeg encoders in that it effectively breaks the 8bit color space "ceiling" within the format!