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Originally Posted by BadFrame
Depending on your definition of success, I think I disagree, as my definition would be replacing jpeg as the de facto (lossy) image format. Given how mobile is increasingly becoming the way people consume web content, I think the chance of gaining the necessary traction without hardware decoding is very unlikely.
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I would agree if we would talk about a video codec but for image codec I can't say that hardware support is the deciding factor. Of course it is important that the codec is designed with hardware implementation in mind as it can't be successful otherwise but I don't think it would be the feature that is important initially.
Consider that we don't need to decompress images at constant rate of at least 21 FPS so even most mobile should be able to handle it reasonably fast and if you factor the download time I think it wouldn't in most cases cause a considerable lag at page loading.