I especially love that it addresses the biggest pitfall of the typical “fancy new format does things better than the one we’re already using” transition, in that it’s specifically engineered to make migration easier, by allowing a lossless conversion from the dominant format.
Unfortunately, adoption has been slow and Alliance for Open Media are pushing back somewhat (especially Google[1], who leads the group) in favor of their inferior .avif format.
JPEG-XL for rasterized images.
https://jpegxl.info/why-jxl.html
I agree.
I especially love that it addresses the biggest pitfall of the typical “fancy new format does things better than the one we’re already using” transition, in that it’s specifically engineered to make migration easier, by allowing a lossless conversion from the dominant format.
Never heard of that, thanks for bringing it to my attention!
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GNOME introduced its support in version 45, AFAIK there isn’t a stable distro release yet that ships it.
Unfortunately, adoption has been slow and Alliance for Open Media are pushing back somewhat (especially Google[1], who leads the group) in favor of their inferior
.avifformat.https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Drops-JPEG-XL ↩︎