Along with the rise of the modern World Wide Web came the introduction of the JPEG image compression standard in 1992, allowing for high-quality images to be shared without requiring the download of a many-MB bitmap file. Since then a number of JPEG replacements have come and gone – including JPEG 2000 – but now Google reckons that it can improve JPEG with Jpegli, a new encoder and decoder library that promises to be highly compatible with JPEG.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/04/07/jpegli-googles-better-jpeg-and-possible-death-knell-for-webp/