Why “XL” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
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
I think the main issue with webp is it was pushed as purely a web delivery optimisation format and not a final output file you’d use in software. So it worked fine if you have a…
by Gigachad · 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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