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Comment by alerighi

I still miss the point. We have connections nowadays that are mostly good (with even the average domestic connection being gigabit!) and JPEG was fine in the days we had much slower connections.

On the other side we introduce yet another format that has to be supported, that creates compatibility issues with people that is using older browsers, or older software, older cameras, etc.

It's just another format meant to replace other formats to uniform all, so now we have N+1 formats that the user has to deal with.

What are the benefit for the final user? A reduction in 50% of the image size? We are not talking about videos (I re-encoded a lot of older videos to h265 because it save me almost 100/150% of the space, but unless you are a professional photographer, that btw uses raw format for archival, you don't have Tb of images so the saving for the average user are neglectable!).

parent alerighi 25 days ago

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