alt Hacker News"in favor of the homegrown and inferior AVIF"
I am using .avif since some years; all my old .jpg and .png files have been pretty much replaced by .avif, in particular fotos. I am not saying .avif is perfect, but IMO it is much better than .jpg or .avif.
I could have gone .webp or perhaps jpeg-xl but at the end of the day, I am quite happy with .avif as it is.
As for JPEG XL - I think the problem here is ... Google. Google dictates de-facto web-standards onto us. This is really bad. I don't want a commercial entity control my digital life.
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For making compact high-quality jpeg files, consider trying jpegli[1], it does an impressive job.
More specifically, if I try a bunch of AVIF quantization options and manually pick the one that appears visually lossless, it beats jpegli, but if I select a quantization option that always looks visually lossless with AVIF, jpegli will win the average size, because I need to use some headroom for images that AVIF does less well on.
no one asked, but FYI in English it is more commmon to say "for several years" instead of "since some years" :)
> I am not saying .avif is perfect, but IMO it is much better than .jpg or .avif
going crazy reading this sentence