alt Hacker NewsAgreed. JPG is the most popular format for photography. PNG, the lossless format is great for diagrams and stuff with sharp edges. It can be "compressed" via dithering and quantization.
GIF is there... because it will always be there because it's just a hit that will never go away. It's also lossless (when discounting colour depth).
The new formats are interesting webp, avif, JXL and so on.
Jpeg classic is the clear winner IMHO and will probably never be less relevant than the new fancier formats. JPG even does text and sharp edges, reds, and so on well if you tell your process to take into account chroma subsampling!
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> PNG, the lossless format is great for diagrams and stuff with sharp edges.
But also, like GIF, it's pointless when lossless WebP exists and is supported everywhere. It's more efficient. Lossy WebP does not make as much sense though since jpegli entered the game.
OP has made https://halide.cx/iris/ which could make lossy WebP make sense, but it's not open source or generally available.
> The new formats are interesting webp, avif, JXL and so on.
WebP was introduced 15 years ago. New relative to JPEG perhaps, but certainly not new.
Jpg, does not do text well, at its regular file size.And somewhat related it has no alpha channel.
PNG was once (win98 era) the sparkling new format that nothing supported yet. Operating systems shouldn't waste their time supporting it.
Jpeg LS do support lossless images.
Gif is a weird one because it's silently been replaced while keeping the name around. Virtually every software using the term "gif" actually uses a h264/vp9 video with no sound.
Modern video formats are so much better that they are a no brainer to use while the word gif just got used to refer to looping video without sound rater than the literal gif image format.