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0 pointsF3nd05mo ago0 comments

In context of the parent comment, 'only 20% improvement' is not super exciting, 'compared to the pain of dealing with yet another new image format'.

You raise a good point, though; WebP certainly did (and continues to do) well in some areas, but at the cost of lacking in others. Moreover, when considering a format for adoption, one should compare it with other candidates for adoption, too. And years before WebP gained widespread support in browsers, it had competition from other interesting formats like FLIF, which addressed some of its flaws, and I have to wonder how it compares to the even older JPEG 2000.

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Dwedit5mo ago

FLIF got integrated in to JPEG-XL as the modular mode.

F3nd0OP5mo ago

If I recall correctly, that's FUIF, originally created by the same author as FLIF's successor of sorts.

JyrkiAlakuijala5mo ago

Not really. FLIF is too slow to decode, about 20x slower than WebP lossless. JPEG XL modular mode uses a similar static context modeling with WebP lossless and Brotli and likely LZHAM where all the entropy codes are generated at decoding time. Also JPEG XL forces tiled coding, making multi-threaded decoding a possibility.

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