Why “JPEG” is being discussed
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Personally, I avoid WebP out of spite. While it has greatly improved over previous formats in certain uses, it has been lacking or offering only marginal improvements in others.…
by F3nd0 · Oct 7, 2026
Firefox did not take very long to support AVIF (another recent image format clearly favoured by Google). Please do correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m not aware of Mozilla expressi…
by F3nd0 · Oct 7, 2026
The industry already started throwing out jpeg for heif because jpeg is so woefully inadequate. Most camera brands have heif support now despite heif having horrible patent issu…
by Gigachad · Oct 7, 2026
That’s not at all how it went. Years ago, both Chrome and Firefox had experimental support. In October 2022, Chrome suddenly announced their decision to drop it (citing dubious…
by F3nd0 · Oct 7, 2026
Unless you're targeting really old browsers, lossless WebP is absolutely worth it over PNG. As a test, I have a set of 36 old MS paint Drawings, originally drawn on Windows 98SE…
by Denatonium · Oct 7, 2026
how about lossless JPEG XL
by atomicthumbs · Oct 7, 2026
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Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "jpeg" over time.
JPEG is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable trade off between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with a loss in image quality that, while perceptible, is widely agreed upon to be acceptable. Since its introduction in 1992, JPEG has been the most widely used image compression standard in the world, and the most widely used digital image format, with several billion JPEG images produced every day as of 2015. Read more on Wikipedia