Can I use JPEG XL Yet [1] ?
Again Image / Video / Audio Codec Support on Safari requires OS update. Unless this is on their agenda for iOS 16 and next macOS, which I doubt, it will likely be a few years before support of it becomes widely available.
Again Image / Video / Audio Codec Support on Safari requires OS update. Unless this is on their agenda for iOS 16 and next macOS, which I doubt, it will likely be a few years before support of it becomes widely available.
Hopefully JXL doesn't become yet another image format (927)... some features of it are incredible. For example, you can have mixed lossless/lossy content in one image. No longer will you need to choose between a lossy or lossless format: the encoder would intelligently segment the image.
What's the advantage of that? If I'm dissatisfied with the compression quality in some areas, I can tweak the quality parameter already.
As far as I understand it, the synthetic mode compresses better for (as you can guess) synthetic content. So if you're encoding a mixed content screenshot, you'll get better quality and size by encoding the photos and UI separately.
And whether it loads faster or slower depends on your connection. But yes it hurts to not get the smoothness benefits.
Definitely smaller than I thought I recalled, and WASM bytes are no dearer than image bytes, though JS bytes are much more expensive, so it’s closer to just the more expensive decoding of the actual images that’ll bite you. Plus the not-integrated loading experience, of course.