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The standard supported by a whopping 9 (!) apps! Sorry, but prevalence of support matters too, and PNG can't be beat there.
by GetJiggyWithout 4y ago
The standard supported by a whopping 9 (!) apps! Sorry, but prevalence of support matters too, and PNG can't be beat there.
- LeoPanthera 4y agoThis is very misleading. Some of those 9 "apps" include imagemagick, ffmpeg, exiftool, libvips, and Qt KImageFormats. These libraries power a vast amount of software. Support is also in beta for Firefox and Chrome.
- thayne 4y agoSo if you are on linux, practically every app that deals with images will work. On windows and mac, it's probably less likely.
- BeFlatXIII 4y agoI wonder why companies with multi-billion dollar budgets for each OS release are such laggards at building in support for formats that presumably would not change much between each release.
- CaptainNegative 4y agoFor one thing, delaying support for basic features lets one ship them as hot features for future launches and updates. Case in point, Apple making a fuss last Monday over finally allowing users to change file extensions in CandyCrushOS^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H iPadOS 16, a move some 51 years after mv was introduced to Unix on which that operating system is ostensibly based.
- pmoriarty 4y ago"So if you are on linux, practically every app that deals with images will work." Linux has way more than 9 apps that deal with images. So if you are on linux, practically every app that deals with images will NOT work with JPEG XL.
- LeoPanthera 4y agoTheir point was that most Linux apps (and a lot of Windows/macOS apps, actually) that deal with images with do so via one of the above libraries, and therefore will handle JPEG XL without even knowing what it is.