{"id":53506,"date":"2026-10-12T22:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=53506"},"modified":"2026-10-12T22:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:37:37","slug":"chrome-supports-jpeg-xl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/12\/chrome-supports-jpeg-xl\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome Supports JPEG XL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toni Sagrista Selles<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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In a dramatic turn of events, the Chromium team has reversed its Obsolete<\/code> 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<\/em> standard for images in the near future.<\/p>\n

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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<\/a>, Intel<\/a>, Cloudinary<\/a>, Adobe<\/a>, ffmpeg<\/code><\/a>, libvips<\/code><\/a>, Krita<\/a>, and many more. After that came the infamous comment[…]<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Michael Larabel<\/a> (Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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JPEG-XL image support is back in the very latest Google Chrome\/Chromium codebase. Back in December they merged jxl-rs<\/a> 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<\/a> with the enums and build flags for the support.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Luca Versari et al.<\/a> (via Jarek Duda<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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

In general, we recommend trying both AVIF and JPEG XL to get the best results.\nWe expect that JPEG XL is most helpful for high-fidelity or lossless\ncompression, especially of photographic images or in cases in which fine-grained\nprogressive decoding is preferred.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n