Comment by bombcar
3 years ago
Everyone hates WebP because when you save it, nothing can open it.
That's improved somewhat, but the formats that will have an easy time winning are the ones that people can use, even if that means a browser should "save JPGXL as JPEG" for awhile or something.
Everyone hates webp for a different reason. I hate it because it can only do 4:2:0 chroma, except in lossless mode. Lossless WebP is better than PNG, but I will take the peace of mind of knowing PNG is always lossless over having a WebP and not knowing what was done to it.
> peace of mind of knowing PNG is always lossless
There is pngquant:
> a command-line utility and a library for lossy compression of PNG images.
You also have things like https://tinypng.com which do (basically) lossy PNG for you. Works pretty well.
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I've noticed in chrome-based browsers, you can right click on a webp file and "edit image". When you save it, it defaults to png download, which makes a simple conversion.
Mobile browsers seem to default to downloading in png as well.
I think JXL has been seeing adoption by apps faster than Webp or AVIF.
Unfortunately its the other way around for web browsers :|