• Korkki@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Actually never heard of JPEG XL, but i would prefer it for the promise of backwards compatibility alone. There are still programs and sites that don’t support using AVIF (much less WEBP ptui!).

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      1 month ago

      It’s not backward compatible. You can take a jpeg and convert it into a jpeg xl image without loss of quality, but that’s it.

      Anything that doesn’t support jpeg xl specifically can’t render a jpeg xl image.

      • cm0002@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        That’s not backwards compatibility, what you described is forwards compatibility (Which is a thing, but not very common)

        Backwards compatibility is meaning that anything built to support JPEG XL will be able to render “classic” JPEG just fine without any extra effort

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldOP
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        1 month ago

        That’s not at all what backward compatibility is. What you’re saying is that a PlayStation 2 isn’t backwards compatible because a PlayStation 1 can’t play PlayStation 2 games; it makes literally no sense.