I thought JPEG 2000 was only meant to replace lossless formats for professional photography, like TIFF. I think JPEG XR is meant to replace JPEG for photos, along with PNG for graphical elements.
And PNG took off because it was a replacement for GIF at a time when people were getting sued for using GIF.
Can you imagine if we were still using a format JPG 2000? I would feel like it was the.com era again. "Fund my company, our web property is covered with JPEG2000!" "Oh, that's advanced."
And PNG took off because it was a replacement for GIF at a time when people were getting sued for using GIF.
"Took off" is sort of relative. It's pretty ubiquitous and well-supported today, but you might recall that it was a major slog getting the format adopted by all the major browsers. In particular, Internet Explorer dragged their heels for many years - no surprise there I guess. And png support in some otherwise prominent image editors was half-assed for quite a while.
I thought JPEG 2000 was only meant to replace lossless formats for professional photography, like TIFF. I think JPEG XR is meant to replace JPEG for photos, along with PNG for graphical elements.
And webp already has fairly wide support in browsers
https://caniuse.com/webp [caniuse.com]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Can you imagine if we were still using a format JPG 2000? I would feel like it was the
And PNG took off because it was a replacement for GIF at a time when people were getting sued for using GIF.
"Took off" is sort of relative. It's pretty ubiquitous and well-supported today, but you might recall that it was a major slog getting the format adopted by all the major browsers. In particular, Internet Explorer dragged their heels for many years - no surprise there I guess. And png support in some otherwise prominent image editors was half-assed for quite a while.