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JPEG XL is superior... just like how Betamax was visually superior.

• greenavocado 1y ago
  The main problem with your argument is the people want JPEG-XL. The main reason it is not in is purely due to Jim Bankoski's limited judgement, intelligence, and foresight. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/WjCKcBw219k/m/xX-NnWtTBQAJ https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/WjCKc...
  • gjsman-1000 1y ago
    Just like how some people wanted Betamax. Politics drives adoption; not technical superiority.
    • greenavocado 1y ago
      Thankfully, unlike people and physical hardware, software and algorithms can lie in wait in perpetuity until they are resurrected when the political winds finally change course or favorable conditions for their spread emerge.
      • throw_m239339 1y ago
        > Thankfully, unlike people and physical hardware, software and algorithms can lie in wait in perpetuity until they are resurrected when the political winds finally change course or favorable conditions for their spread emerge. XHTML 2 is waiting on that one... Oh well...
    • izacus 1y ago
      "People" here are a tiny minority of techies that have emotional connection to the library they built and a group of OSSers which will take anything that bashes Google as a gospel. Everyone else... is fine with JPEG. And occasionally shares HEIC pictures from their iPhones.
• gsich 1y ago
  >just like how Betamax was visually superior. Only for a very brief period. (Beta 1)