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The JPEG XL Image Coding History, Features, Coding Tools, Design Rationale

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ekunazanu ◴[15 Jul 25 11:29 UTC] No.44570052[source]▶
JPEG XL had so much going for it. Kinda sad it was killed off just like that.
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MrAlex94 ◴[15 Jul 25 11:47 UTC] No.44570161[source]▶
As it currently stands there should be over a billion devices that natively support JPEG-XL, as it was introduced in all Apple OSs since September 2023[1].

On the web alone it should be close to a billion users with support for JXL due to Safari’s market share.

[1]: https://cloudinary.com/blog/jpeg-xl-how-it-started-how-its-g...

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ndriscoll ◴[15 Jul 25 12:04 UTC] No.44570272[source]▶
It's also supported in Windows, GNOME, KDE, pretty much all image editors/viewers, and pretty much every other relevant program except for chromium based browsers.
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account42 ◴[15 Jul 25 12:27 UTC] No.44570437[source]▶
Not just Chromium-based browsers, Firefox as well. Might not make much of a difference for user counts but it does mean that so far it's available on the web is limited to a single vendor.
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OneDeuxTriSeiGo ◴[15 Jul 25 12:55 UTC] No.44570649[source]▶
It's worth noting that it is "supported" in Firefox however it's not enabled at compile time for release builds (but is enabled for nightly and testing/validation builds).

Full release/production support will come when the (more or less drop in replacement) rust rewrite of libjxl is production ready.

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1. throw0101c ◴[15 Jul 25 13:16 UTC] No.44570816[source]▶
> rust rewrite of libjxl

See:

* https://github.com/libjxl/jxl-rs