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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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1. donatzsky ◴[15 Jul 25 13:30 UTC] No.44570956[source]▶
It wasn't killed off. Support was removed from Chrome, for what appears to be rather spurious reasons, but practically everyone else are busy implementing it.
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2. jandrese ◴[15 Jul 25 15:57 UTC] No.44572511[source]▶
Sadly removing support from Chrome is effectively the same as killing it off. And the reason is Google wants people to use webp instead.
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3. greenavocado ◴[15 Jul 25 17:14 UTC] No.44573507[source]▶
Friendly reminder that WebP is trash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7UDJUCMTng
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4. can16358p ◴[15 Jul 25 18:06 UTC] No.44574100{3}[source]▶
While I'm not the biggest fan of WebP, using generation loss as a metric wouldn't be an indicator of a real world scenario. I can't think of any actual instance where an image needs to be re-encoded, say, 10 times, let alone 100+ times.
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5. greenavocado ◴[15 Jul 25 18:17 UTC] No.44574240{4}[source]▶
What do you think happens to images shared and re-shared between people online?
6. OneDeuxTriSeiGo ◴[15 Jul 25 19:17 UTC] No.44574821[source]▶
Not really? Chrome dropped support but Google is actually supporting the JPEG-XL rust port that Firefox is waiting on.
7. JyrkiAlakuijala ◴[16 Jul 25 12:35 UTC] No.44581570[source]▶
> killed off

my guesswork is that JPEG XL will likely outlive Chrome by 100+ years