That road in the photo needs to be repaved.

If you’re really saving 20% in file size with XL, adding back a very compressed preview image that takes up one or two percent isn’t going to cost you much.

All you have to do is add a small traditional JPEG image at the start of the file. It doesn’t have to be high resolution or more than a couple of kb. The new format decoder would know this, and skip the traditional jpeg “header”, rendering the newer file format embedded in the image.

I would be more excited about JPEG XL if it was backward compatible. Not looking forward to yet another image standard that requires OS and hardware upgrades simply so servers can save a few bytes.

You could compress the hell out of the traditional jpeg codec/layer part of the image. It’d be there for backwards compatibility. It only has to be readable by older clients and “acceptable” quality.

See “49kb” example here — totally acceptable image quality for backwards compatibility.

https://res.cloudinary.com/thewebmaster/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,q_auto,w_1250/images/blog/jpeg-images-definitive-guide/JPEG_Quality_vs_Size.png

I know what Betamax is.

If Jpeg-XL was backwards compatible with older clients, it would probably take off. Like if the format embedded a standard jpeg image in the front readable by older clients, and then enhanced it with additional data at end of file readable by Jpeg-XL clients.

DAT and DDC were great as well. Beta too. But sometimes good enough (like JPG and VHS) is good enough.

< Insert XKCD comic strip about new standards here >

Poor thing.

Just a heads up that your local humane society sometimes has a foster program for situations like this (or likely knows of a foster program in your area).

Poor bears.

Yes. I think Pascal has been in too much stuff lately. And yes I think JK is a dark hearted nut job. I will never understand her vitriol towards trans people. These are not mutually exclusive ideas.

“Why I’m sick of Scarlett Johansson”

Uh no. He’s just in everything now. It’s overexposure. You can admit to that and also despise JK Rowling.

Yes. They buried the unsold cartridges in the desert.

ET for the Atari 2600. Yes, I’m old.

Pac-Man might not have looked like the arcade version, but it was close enough, and we played the hell out of it. ET was a confusing snooze.

I’d prefer it when I’m out shopping. So tired of usually horrible pop and country music blaring from the speakers in shops and restaurants.

Plex supports Direct Play — no encode/decode needed if the network is decent and the client (like Roku or AppleTV) supports the file format sent by the server.

Plex server. Especially good for parents if you have digitized movies and music.