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by jandrese 343 days ago
Sadly removing support from Chrome is effectively the same as killing it off. And the reason is Google wants people to use webp instead.
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Not really? Chrome dropped support but Google is actually supporting the JPEG-XL rust port that Firefox is waiting on.
Friendly reminder that WebP is trash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7UDJUCMTng
While I'm not the biggest fan of WebP, using generation loss as a metric wouldn't be an indicator of a real world scenario. I can't think of any actual instance where an image needs to be re-encoded, say, 10 times, let alone 100+ times.
What do you think happens to images shared and re-shared between people online?