why haven't we seen any real advancements in image formats?

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>>61373422
well there's webp, which isn't exactly widely used. Really it's that there's no longer much pressure to make formats better. Bandwidth, storage space, and processing power aren't as tight as they used to be, and wide compatibility (that is, everyone using something that already exists) is a big advantage.

cuz u can't beat a joint picture experts group in compression

Everyone would have to agree to using it and it would also have to be a free format so adopting the format isn't made impossible because of licenses.

>>61373422
There have been: SVG became popular this decade.

https://bellard.org/bpg/
https://wyohknott.github.io/image-formats-comparison/#pont-de-quebec-at-night&jpg=s&bpg=s

when we start getting artificially restrained after the repeal of NN, then we will get a renaissance of image formats.

>>61373543
>well there's webp, which isn't exactly widely used.
It's not widely used because there's almost no support in web browsers.

>Really it's that there's no longer much pressure to make formats better. Bandwidth, storage space, and processing power aren't as tight as they used to be
I've used """broadband""" student Wifi for a year. Trust me, bandwidth still is a huge pressure. So is processing power when Javascript is involved.

>wide compatibility (that is, everyone using something that already exists) is a big advantage.
Tell that to the plethora of hipster webmasters who put weird-ass Javascripts on their websites that you need Chrome to run correctly. I'd prefer not everyone being able to display some pictures over half of people getting freezes each time they hover a link.

>>61373422
I thought .png was pretty much the standard nice vector graphics format?

>>61375589
>png
>vector graphics format
nice one, dude

>>61375467
>>well there's webp, which isn't exactly widely used.
>It's not widely used because there's almost no support in web browsers.
And it changes every freaking week and no one trusts Google (for good reason)

>>61375334
wat