I had the luxury of seeing incredibly smart engineers speak about their new innovations for web development.
I then got to watch them get hired by Google and paid extremely well to release those innovations, with the support of a bunch of other brilliant people, often under a open-source label.
I then get to see people go, “Google Bad!” About those features, and because it was paid for by Google, they don’t even want to touch it.
WebP and AVIF are good at what they do, it’s just that Google insists on them being the only modern formats people should ever use, despite different formats being better in specific contexts.
I don’t think people would be as upset if Google gave people the choice to use other formats. The standards aren’t the problem, the monopoly is.
I had the luxury of seeing incredibly smart engineers speak about their new innovations for web development.
I then got to watch them get hired by Google and paid extremely well to release those innovations, with the support of a bunch of other brilliant people, often under a open-source label.
I then get to see people go, “Google Bad!” About those features, and because it was paid for by Google, they don’t even want to touch it.
WebP and AVIF are good at what they do, it’s just that Google insists on them being the only modern formats people should ever use, despite different formats being better in specific contexts.
I don’t think people would be as upset if Google gave people the choice to use other formats. The standards aren’t the problem, the monopoly is.