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userbinator on June 18, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024)

I have written a JPEG, GIF, and PNG decoder. All easily weekend projects. As for the other two I've attempted the same for:

JPEG2000: insanely complex and nonintuitive, especially the edge-cases and overly flexible encoding decisions

WebP: also complex, and effectively Google-proprietary

panja on June 18, 2025 | [–]

Thoughts on jxl?

NooneAtAll3 on June 18, 2025 | [–]

have you tried QOI? ;)

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