Chrome Supports JPEG XL
Toni Sagrista Selles (Hacker News):
In a dramatic turn of events, the Chromium team has reversed its
Obsoletetag, 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.[…]
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[…][…]
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.
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.
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Very glad to see JXL gaining steam. To me, the killer feature is lossless encoding of JPEGs. Like most people, most of the digital photos I've taken over my life exist as JPEGs and I've always been wanting to use a more efficient format for them but have been afraid of picking a "loser" format and then converting to one format, then having to convert to another. Being able to convert to JXL and have a format that I can view on my Mac but which I can always turn back into the original JPEG seems like a great way to save some disk space.
