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adzmtoday at 1:40 AM1 replyview on HN

I didn't realize progressive AVIF was a thing recently either; the comparison between that and jxl was pretty surprising.


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nneonneotoday at 1:51 AM

Worth noting that this progressive AVIF, when viewed in Chrome, has only two states: a "base layer" which pops in around 8KB, and the full image which appears 270KB later. The comparison JXL continues to refine during most of the download, so it winds up looking substantially better than the AVIF at around 95KB loaded, and looks pretty good (almost as good as the full 280KB AVIF) by 175KB. I suspect that there are a lot of knobs to turn for both progressive modes, but this particular case could definitely be cherry-picked to favour either codec.

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