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wmftoday at 6:19 AM2 repliesview on HN

Honestly AVIF2 is the last thing we need now. There are way too many minority image formats already.


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Gigachadtoday at 7:50 AM

There aren’t _that_ many. HEIF has been an unusually large pain in the ass just because it’s both patent encumbered and incredibly popular since the iPhone and many cameras use it.

JPEG is woefully outdated with the lack of HDR and modern compression, HEIF can’t be used without paying a license, webp was designed just for extremely efficient small images rather than local storage, avif I’ve never seen used ever, and JPEG XL is on track to be the next major format.

I agree we don’t need an avif2, but until jpeg xl there really weren’t any decent alternatives for jpeg.

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fishgoesblubtoday at 4:05 PM

It's a silly idea to not improve on things for something as "too many" formats. There's too many ARM processors out there, should companies stop development and keep using old, less efficient CPUs?

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