JPEG2000 - This should help us all...

This should be awesome for everything that is into designing or anything for that matter....smaller and better....check it out...

JPEG2000

To take advantage of a JPEG2000, web browsers will need a Plug-In for either Internet Explorer or Netscape browsers. These free plug-in's are expected to be available later this year. The extension for the new files will be ".jp2"."

In other words, "this is going to be a pain in the ass to standardize with current browsers but once developers decide it's a valid solution, they will incorporate it. Also, dont forget about needing to upgrade your software to be able to use the new jpeg version."

Doesn't sound like such a good idea now.

yeah but it will preserve the quality while lowering the file size...so that should help out...even thought it is going to be a pain in the a$$ for people that dont know about having to upgrade their broswer....

PNG is better for some things too, but no one uses that. It won't be used until it is integrated into every browser.

I'll believe it when I see it. IE 12 might support it.

(Hell, they may need a JPEG 3000 by the time the web is standardized enough to support JPEG 2000).

IE 12, haha.

Webpages aren't the only thing that users jpg. PNG is spiffy but it doesn't compress too much better then JPG (or not even as good as?? anyone know?) My digital camaera sames in jpg. i think that this format would be nice to have on that where space REALLY matters.

And all it really takes is IE to support it and it seems everyone starts using it. As history dictates usually if someone wants to use something and its supports for IE they will do it reguardless of it being supported by Netscape or other browswers (grr) so we will see how long this takes to become in standard use, if ever.

plus...jpg2000? Could they pick a stupider name? IT just makes it seem 2 years out of date ALREADY.

Considering I had never even heard of this until now, I don't think it's that big of a deal. I don't think it will be in widespread use for years and years to come, if ever.

you can't really compare PNG and JPG. They are two very different types of compression.

PNG is vector graphics, JPG is raster.

vector are basically ascii or unicode files. the text in the file gives instructions to the application of how to draw it. this is why vector graphics can be scaled with very little to no distortion.

raster is a binary file. they are stored as a specific dimension, width x height, and stretching them using an application such as a browser using HTML will only distort them.