Once again I find myself thinking, “Dammit, Google!”
Thank you very much for the text summary, I really appreciate it :)
Comment on JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 months agoJPEG is getting old in the tooth, which prompted the creation of JPEG XL, which is a fairly future-proof new compression standard that can compress images to the same file size or smaller than regular JPEG while having massively higher quality.
However, JPEG XL support was removed from Google Chrome based browsers in favor of AVIF, a standalone image compression derived from the AV1 video compression codec that is decidely not future-proof, having some hardcoded limitations, as well as missing some very nice to have features that JPEG XL offers such as progressive image loading and lower hardware requirements. The result of this is that JPEG XL adoption will be severely hamstrung by Google’s decision, which is ultimately pretty lame.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I’d also highly recommend reading endsoftwarepatents.org/…/googles-decision-to-depr… — more than features and future proofing, the big issue here is patents. Google controls the patents for AVIF.
Then again, I use HEIF, which is alternately patent encumbered, and default to PNG and SVG for web-facing graphics.
GammaGames@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Also fluffykins broke the camera recording again
protist@mander.xyz 2 months ago
*long in the tooth
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Ah! quite right, thanks for the correction :)
averyminya@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Meh, we all should just move.to .PNG anyway
/S kinda
nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 2 months ago
And here we have a clear example of how Chrome’s almost monopoly is a bad thing for us.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Not almost monopoly.
Steve@communick.news 2 months ago
Monopolies don’t require 100% of a market. Just enough to effectively manipulate a market.
One firm might only be 10% of a market. But if every other firm is only 1-2%, that 10% will have an outsized monopolistic ability to manipulate that market.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
While I am by no means trying to defend Google, or their monopoly, I’m struggling to see how this time is a “clear example” of monopolistic behaviour?
Like, take for contrast the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) image format HEIC, which Apple has adopted as it’s main high-res format on iOS. It’s proprietary, and that fact is indeed worrying. However, the only reason I can figure out for Google’s move here being a ‘bad’ thing, is if you’re nostalgic about the .jpg extension…
nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 2 months ago
I didn’t mean the choice of image format is a monopolistic behavior, but that the monopoly puts google in a position that any choice they make, be it a good or bad one, becomes an industry standard, without others having any choice in it.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 months ago
I hope an opensource, non-C/C++ browser will pop up that can claw back from Chrome/Chromium. It’s about time.
Anti Commercial-AI license
Markaos@lemmy.one 2 months ago
Why not just say Rust? There isn’t really anything else that would provide good enough performance for a browser engine with modern heavy webpages while also fixing some major pain point of C/C++
onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 months ago
Go is not an option? Zig neither? Even Java would be better (it’s used in high-frequency trading).
Anti Commercial-AI license