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Comment by legitster

7 hours ago

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.

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.

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.

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.