WebP has all the functionality of jpg, png, and gif while still being a smaller filesize. It has baseline support across browsers and devices. I'm no Google simp and work to de-google my family and workplace but this is a hill I will die on. Webp currently the best image file format.

[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Webp currently the best image file format.

Out of the widely supported ones, it's quite good, yeah. Overall, I'd say JPEG XL is the better one. Ironically, only Safari supports it out of the box. Firefox requires a Nightly version with tweaking in about:config. Chrome used to have a feature flag, but has since removed it.

[–] brachypelmide@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I think compatibility was also being taken into account here. When not looking at compatibility, JXL is the best hands down. It's criminal how little software supports it.

[–] fdnomad@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The website mentions

Migrating to JPEG XL reduces storage costs because servers can store a single JPEG XL file to serve both JPEG and JPEG XL clients.

Does anyone know how that works?

[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

I assume, decoding it on the fly? It's possible to encode a JPEG as a JPEG XL losslessly.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

If loser companies would support it I'd say AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) is the best.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 8 points 1 week ago

It is. The sentiment comes from majority of Americans using Apple operating systems, which refused to support WebP until recently.