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Creating two copies of a file isn’t backward compatibility. Thats what devs are doing now with webp. One webp file, and one joeg file for clients who cant render webp.

Now if you could open and view a jpeg xl file without having to upgrade your app/browser/whatever — that would be backward compatibility.

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BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Creating two different copies of a file isn’t backward compatibility.

Well if you bothered to actually read you would know that is precisely not the case here. The JPEG XL file can be reconstructed to the exact same JPEG file, ensuring backward compatibility with legacy applications.

Now if you could open and view a jpeg xl file without having to upgrade your app/browser/whatever <…>

That would be forward compatability.

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