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AUDIOPHILE: i like the sound of vinyl. it’s warm and homely
ME: 😏 silly audiophiles. that’s just nostalgia. objectively it’s worse quality than CDs, and—
IMAGE CODEC ENGINEER: hey check out WebP and HEIC they’re way more efficient than JPEG
ME: no they look like crap… why are the images so blurry 😡
IMAGE CODEC ENGINEER: the JPEG is also blurry it just has blocking artifacts
ME: but i like the blocking artifacts. i grew up with them. they’re comfy and even if inauthentic, the noise improves the quality i perceive
ME: … wait

@hikari @hikari png or lossless jxl webp is google

@roboneko @hikari we use WebP for many reasons, including the fact that an animated WebP of higher resolution than an animated GIF or APNG often takes up fewer bytes on disk than either of the other formats. it’s just more efficient.

@hikari @arcana @hikari gif and apng are lossless tho so that is apples to oranges

but yeah, if you want lossy animations and want to avoid mp4 with h.264 or h.265 for whatever reason then webp makes sense. why not just use mp4 tho?

@hikari @hikari @arcana isn't that purely a matter of how you go about the initial encoding though? nothing inherent to the format itself

@roboneko @arcana I guess so for APNG. GIF definitely can’t losslessly represent video with more than 256 colours though

@hikari @hikari @arcana @pomstan fair point. gif was good at what it was good at and is clearly outdated at this point

webp just doesn't sit well with me because for adding yet another format that's going to stick around forever it doesn't feel like we got all that much. meanwhile it extends google's control to yet another standard

compare to jxl technical capabilities (canvas size, channels, etc) and upgrade path (existing jpg can be converted and downgraded without reencoding). in which case it at least feels to me like worthwhile technical benefits and convergence for the cost of adding another standard to the mix