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I think, whole idea of «web images» is silly now.

Browsers are new OSes.

There is no any «web» anymore. E-mail clients are web, news readers are web, image galleries are web, heck, even image editing software could be web (google:photopea).

And as such there should not be «web-optimized» formats anymore.

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"Web optimised" really means "internet transfer optimised". Eg, the benefits would also be there for native apps that are downloading images from the internet, and they're not the web.

In practice "web optimized" is a soft copyright control where the image is read-only to the extent the only readily available software that can open it is a web browser.

All the formats we are talking about here (JXL, AVIF and WebP) have FOSS royalty-free encoders and decoders.

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