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Hi! This is the author of the post here. Thank you all for your input and discussion of the term "goated" and different photo formats! I'm not super into photog
by thecsw 4y ago
Hi! This is the author of the post here. Thank you all for your input and discussion of the term "goated" and different photo formats! I'm not super into photography, I focused mainly on what looks good from a casual browsing experince and also saves space for me.
I want to note that there are formats that are meant to supersede WebP, such as AVIF and JPEG XL, however, AVIF (69.25%, I also mainly use Safari) [1] and JPEG XL (0%) [2] are not as nearly adopted as WebP is (91.38%) [3]. Usage taken on April 13th, 2022. Also, get a browser released after 2013.
[1] https://caniuse.com/avif https://caniuse.com/avif
[2] https://caniuse.com/jpegxl https://caniuse.com/jpegxl
[3] https://caniuse.com/webp https://caniuse.com/webp
- dTal 4y agoYou would have achieved similarly amazing compression results if you had converted your PNGs to ordinary jpgs - no "state of the art stuff" required. You say you don't care whether it's lossy or lossless as long as it looks good - why were you using such an inappropriate format for photos on the web in the first place?
- thecsw 4y agoTrue, jpegs would have achieved similar. I liked PNGs over the years because of the alpha channel, which was super useful. WebP is the only format I know that is both lossy and has an alpha channel.