Comment by ezfe
7 hours ago
JXL has clear advantages and saying you don't see them means you either didn't attempt to see them or willfully ignore them
7 hours ago
JXL has clear advantages and saying you don't see them means you either didn't attempt to see them or willfully ignore them
I'm not sure if the parent comment means to say, but I could choose to interpret their meaning to be:
PNG/JPEG have strong support (nearly everywhere). I think of them almost as the modern TIFF - relatively simple, and almost everything supports one or both of them (few to no issues).
JXL may eventually get there (that indeed seems to be its goal), but for now I wouldn't drop e.g. PNG or JPEG support in favor of JXL now.
And arguably, perhaps never drop support; its such a prevalent format, even if all software (prevalent or otherwise) supports the format in 10 years, there will be such a huge stockpile of JPEG/PNG that something will need to be used to read/convert.
> I think of them almost as the modern TIFF - relatively simple
TIFF is not simple at all. There is a joke that it stands for “Thousands of Incompatible File Formats”.
Not everyone needs to be an early adopter of every technology.
Even if JXL is superior in every single way, it doesn't make sense to throw out a perfectly functional graphics package and design language for a marginal bump in capability.
The industry already started throwing out jpeg for heif because jpeg is so woefully inadequate. Most camera brands have heif support now despite heif having horrible patent issues. Jpeg XL provides all the technical benefits without being patent encumbered.
It may or may not be marginal.
For me now, its marginal.
For a past customer, not at all. That customer really cared about delivering image-heavy pages quickly. There was a fairly big difference in customer perception at a timing threshold.
What are you throwing out to use JXL?
The very point of this topic is that JXL is leaving the "early adopter" realm. If your website begins serving JXL assets next month, you'll simply be an adopter.