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Which new Protocol or Standard are you most excited about? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 days ago by koulib@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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pretty much the title.

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[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago

JPEG-XL (someone already mentioned it as .jxl below) image files.

competitive with AVIF compression levels
not recycling video compression, so you get benefits like progressive loading
JPEG transcoding - can take existing JPEG files (so much of the existing images online) and shrink their size by ~20% with literally no change to the presented image, and this is easily reverable. The amount of data this would shrink without risk of altering the data is HUGE.

There are a ton of other benefits but those are the three I'm most excited about.