• Moah
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    4 months ago

    Why wasn’t PNG enough to replace jpeg?

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOP
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      4 months ago

      PNG is a lossless format, and hence results in fairly large file sized compared to compressed formats, so they’re solving different issues.

      JPEG XL is capable of being either lossy or lossless, so it sorta replaces both JPEG and PNG