I like that Mozilla is improving the existing accepted standard, but using modern (mostly patented) codec techniques we could get lossy images to under 1/2 of t

I like that Mozilla is improving the existing accepted standard, but using modern (mostly patented) codec techniques we could get lossy images to under 1/2 of the current size at the same quality and decode speed. Or at a much higher quality for the same size. The speed modern web concerns me. The standards are not moving forward. We still use HTML, CSS, Javascript, Jpeg, Gif, and PNG. Gif especially is a format where we could see similar sized/quality moving images at 1/8th the file size if we supported algorithms similar to those found in modern video. In all of these cases, they aren't "tried and true" so much as "we've had so many problems with each that we've got a huge suite of half-hacked solutions to pretty much everything you could want to do". We haven't moved forward because we can't. WebP is a good example of a superior format that never stood a chance because front-end web technology is not flexible.