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No, it's a bad idea because they based it on a video codec and then released a much better video codec a year later but couldn't update it. It's not better eno
by astrange 2y ago
No, it's a bad idea because they based it on a video codec and then released a much better video codec a year later but couldn't update it.
It's not better enough than JPEG to be worth existing.
- saagarjha 2y agoThe same could be said for half the formats Apple ships: HEIF/HEVC, for example. Or even LZFSE: who asked for an algorithm that compresses worse, slower?
- astrange 2y agoIt could but HEVC is actually an open standard, whereas WebP is a proprietary codec they bought and then released with no community feedback. (That's why the next VPx codec was better.) Also HEIF actually has useful features, it supports HDR! AVIF is certainly better though. I only feel positively about AVIF and JPEGXL.