Comment by chaosharmonic
10 hours ago
I've been wishing for years that all of these codecs with hybrid lossless/lossy modes would just add a single l to their file extensions, purely for the annoyance of it.
Like, you can do this individually, but it's not the same thing as actually having it in the standard.
Does the L stand for lossy, or lossless? Or large, as in this case?
The L in JPEG XL stands for "long-term"[1]!
But people are definitely going to assume "eXtra Large". Lots of people. I guess a few will think "excel" (as in JPEG XL comes out ahead and is superior).
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XL
One L for Lossy, two for LossLess.
Does the one at the end of .JXL count toward the total? Nobody knows what it stands for anyway.
See I would think lossless is the one you have to specify. (Also, it stops being "large" when you extend this gripe to similar formats like AVIF and WebP.)
And no, L isn't for large, we have W for that
(You know... for "Wumbo")