Comment by charcircuit

24 days ago

>it isn't Google.

It is Google. The JPEG XL standard evolved from a codec Google made, Google was involved in the standardization process, and Google heavily contributed to the reference implementation of JPEG XL.

https://ds.jpeg.org/whitepapers/jpeg-xl-whitepaper.pdf

  Editors:
  Jyrki Alakuijala – Google, Switzerland
  Jon Sneyers – Cloudinary, Belgium
  Luca Versari – Google, Switzerland
  Jan Wassenberg – Google, Switzerland

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hn_submit  24 days ago

Yes, but unlike WebP it wasn't exclusively designed and developed by Google. That's a big difference.

  • mimasama  24 days ago

    AV1 wasn't also exclusively designed and developed by Google.

    Chrome's team should be blamed for favoring AVIF over JPEG-XL, not Google entirely.

jbverschoor  24 days ago

And Google also removed jxl support in Chrome in '22 (only to put it back in recently)

  • jaffathecake  24 days ago

    It was only ever supported behind a flag. Stuff behind a flag isn't 'supported', it's experimental. The experiment ended.