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Are we Wayland yet? Are we JPEGXL yet? Are we Rust yet?

I’ve gathered a meta-tracker for the adoption state of futuristic technologies.

    • Vincent@feddit.nl
      8·
      6 months ago

      What is it with this obsession with JPEG-XL? I keep seeing it mentioned on lots of threads, but as a user, the benefits seem marginal? Like: would be nice, but I’d expect more significant benefits from something that’s brought up this often - so which benefits am I missing?

      • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        Honestly? I agree with you that the benefits seem kind of marginal. But I still think it’s a fascinating thing. :)

        Edit:

        On doing some reading about it and trying it out for myself, the file size reductions are hardly marginal. It’s actually quite impressive. Still, it seems for most people, including myself, that jpeg for lossy & png for lossless is more than adequate, especially with how cheap storage is nowadays.

        (And, frankly, I appreciate seeing at a glance if an image is lossy or lossless, but I imagine that’s a priority most people don’t have. Lol.)

      • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        6·
        6 months ago

        Because it’s yet another example of Google’s near-monopoly over the Web’s architecture. It’s not healthy for good web development. It’s like the 90s and Microsoft all over again.

        I mean, fuck, we’re already getting websites that’ve been “optimized” for Chromium-based browsers—in other words, semi-broken for non-Chromium browsers.

          • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            4·
            6 months ago

            I said a near-monopoly. Also, even if it’s foss, by creating the format, they established the baseline parameters of that format.

            That gives them a significant degree of control.

             

            Edit: I also hate it because so many of the programs I use don’t support it, so I constantly have to copy > paste into image editor program > Save as PNG.

            Though admittedly this is mostly an adoption thing. Still, it’s a major problem.