Archive for October 12, 2026

Monday, October 12, 2026

Chrome Supports JPEG XL

Toni Sagrista Selles (Hacker News):

In a dramatic turn of events, the Chromium team has reversed its Obsolete tag, and has decided to support the format in Blink (the engine behind Chrome/Chromium/Edge). Given Chrome’s position in the browser market share, I predict the format will become a de factor standard for images in the near future.

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I’ve been following JPEG XL since its experimental support in Blink. What started as a promising feature was quickly axed by the team in a bizarre and ridiculous manner. First, they asked the community for feedback on the format. Then, the community responded very positively. And I don’t only mean a couple of guys in their basement. Meta, Intel, Cloudinary, Adobe, ffmpeg, libvips, Krita, and many more. After that came the infamous comment[…]

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To top it off, a couple of weeks ago, the PDF Association announced their intent to adopt JPEG XL as a preferred image format in their PDF specification.

Michael Larabel (Slashdot):

JPEG-XL image support is back in the very latest Google Chrome/Chromium codebase. Back in December they merged jxl-rs as a pure Rust-based JPEG-XL image decoder from the official libjxl organization. At the end of December they did more JPEG-XL plumbing with the enums and build flags for the support.

Luca Versari et al. (via Jarek Duda):

We’re excited to announce that Chrome is shipping decoding support for the JPEG XL (.jxl) image format starting from Chrome 155. JPEG XL is a next-generation image format designed to meet the needs of modern web developers and photographers. It offers 30-50% better compression than JPEG, lossless compression, built-in HDR support, lossless JPEG transcoding, and more.

In general, we recommend trying both AVIF and JPEG XL to get the best results. We expect that JPEG XL is most helpful for high-fidelity or lossless compression, especially of photographic images or in cases in which fine-grained progressive decoding is preferred.

Previously:

Instagram Charging for Links

Meta:

If you subscribe to a Meta One plan, you can add links to a set number of posts and reels each month based on your plan:

  • Meta One Advanced plan: up to 4 posts and 4 reels with links per month
  • Meta One Expert plan: up to 8 posts and 8 reels with links per month
  • Meta One Max plan: up to 12 posts and 12 reels with links per month

Via Nick Heer:

Instagram has never supported links of any kind in individual posts, so that is a new feature with two links per month permitted for free, and more enabled by this pricey subscription — starting at $50 USD per month for four posts per month containing external links. But links in Reels have been commonplace for years. Meta is now gating that, too; and there is more.

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Meta seems to have two objectives here: to take a cut from businesses that use Meta’s services as a referral source more generally, and — more specifically — to capture some of the money made by influencers.

Requiring login, removing RSS, discouraging links. Things are not looking good for the open Web.

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