> Thirty-eight years later, we’re still using the GIF—but it never rose to the same prevalence of JPEG. > The GIF was a de facto standard. The JPEG was an actua

> Thirty-eight years later, we’re still using the GIF—but it never rose to the same prevalence of JPEG. > The GIF was a de facto standard. The JPEG was an actual one I know this is IEEE but seriously? JPEG won because it was a formal standard? Didn't JPEG win because it supported more than 256 colours and, with the lossy compression, greatly reduced file size and bandwidth needs for our cat photo and porn collections? While proposed replacements ... solve what problems?