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eviks • today at 6:08 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Unfortunately for the comparison-focused blog post the comparison widgets is pretty bad - you can't quickly compare 2 reference pictures (original vs AVIF or original vs JXL) at different scalings like here https://web.archive.org/web/20200915201019/https://afontenot...

(also like the BPP size metric that is picture size-independent)

Wish that widget with improvements (that allows comparison of 3 pics with 3 buttons: original/codec1/codec2) were the widespread standard (also, "hold" is a rather unergonomic action)

Otherwise, seems like AVIF has had impressive gains in both speed and quality, wonder whether JXL could catch up


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networked • today at 7:12 PM

For a moment I was sad the original comparison page was gone. It turns out it is still online under the developer's new GitHub username: https://lmfont.github.io/image-formats-comparison/#abandoned....

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jaffathecake • today at 6:44 PM

Offering different scalings is pointless because they're designed for a single largest size.

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