At what year would you say the web should have stabilized on the basics?
replyAs in JPEG, GIF, and PNG? Early 2000s. Maybe with a subset of SWF as a (animated)/vector format instead of horribly bloated SVG.
replyThe old JPG/PNG choice had a big problem: JPG handles sharp edges, including text, badly. PNG produces huge photo files. Images containing a mix of both don't work well in either format.
replyBy contrast, when using a modern format like WEBP or AVIF, a single encoder configuration produces decent looking results across a variety of input images.
How is it "a single encoder configuration"? WEBP has separate lossy and lossless compression modes and simply gives both the same filename extension.
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