Unraveling the JPEG
What’s remarkable is, like MP3, JPEG is a perceptual format designed decades ago but still so widely used today. We’ve actually gotten much, much better at image and audio compression in the intervening years, but both JPEG and MP3 hang on because they’re “good enough” for the majority of uses.<p>I do hope that new alternatives like BPG, HEIC or WebP displace JPEG someday - but that day promises to be very far into the future.