To the frustration of many developers and end-users, back in 2022 Google deprecated JPEG-XL support in Chrome/Chromium and proceeded to remove the support. That decision was widely slammed and ultimately Google said they may end up reconsidering it. In November there was renewed activity and interest in restoring JPEG-XL within Google’s image web browser and as of yesterday the code was merged.
JPEG-XL Image Support Returns To Latest Chrome / Chromium Code
Submitted 3 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.phoronix.com/news/JPEG-XL-Returns-Chrome-Chromium
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What is JPEG-XL and why wouldn’t one continue to use PNG?
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Up to 46% compared to PNG is more than a bit extra. It’s also both loseless and lossy and supports backwards compatability between legacy JPEG. Among many other modern features.
And PNG is so old that it lacks basic modern features like HDR support.
The only competition to JPEG-XL is AVIF. Though both likely to coexist as they have different strenghts.
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Its not backwards compatible. I don’t know where you got this idea from.
javasux@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Here’s the white paper on it ds.jpeg.org/whitepapers/jpeg-xl-whitepaper.pdf