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fuif
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JPEG XL: How It Started, How It’s Going
But they didn't even explain what FUIF or PIK might be in that section or even the entire article!
To understand that article required me searching for FUIF [1], PIK [2] and a brief explanation of what JPEG XL is trying to achieve.
I double down on my "complaint" - I'd call it constructive criticism - that article was poorly written. It's actually quite a good story that their Free Universal Image Format (FUIF) has achieved what it has. That's a great acronym, especially for a world that thinks JPEG XL is a good acronym! Why not put in in the article.
To save anyone else time:
[1] https://github.com/cloudinary/fuif
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Google set to deprecate JPEG XL support in Chrome 110
here is FUIF (one of JXL parents) author writing about benefits of progressive: https://github.com/cloudinary/fuif
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Image File Formats That Didn’t Make It
There was also an update to it called FUIF - Free Universal Image Format
https://github.com/cloudinary/fuif
But it too got superseded by JPEG XL (.jxl) https://jpegxl.info/
libfpx
What are some alternatives?
tiny-utf8 - Unicode (UTF-8) capable std::string
qrcode-png - Create QR code PNG files! This module has a custom built PNG encoder for QR codes to make them tinier than the competition, and works *fast* in both the browser and Node. It has a light dependency tree.
exiftool - ExifTool meta information reader/writer
stb - stb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++
Vrmac - Vrmac Graphics, a cross-platform graphics library for .NET. Supports 3D, 2D, and accelerated video playback. Works on Windows 10 and Raspberry Pi4.
caniuse - Raw browser/feature support data from caniuse.com
rdopng - Rate-Distortion Optimized Lossy PNG/QOI Encoding Tool
lepton - Lepton is a tool and file format for losslessly compressing JPEGs by an average of 22%.
squoosh - Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser.
pik - A new lossy/lossless image format for photos and the internet
mozjpeg - Improved JPEG encoder.