The case against JPEG XL

kept by mfaessel sep 14

JPEG XL underperforms AVIF in lossy compression and decode speed, making it unnecessary for the Web despite advantages for non-web use cases like professional photography.

Google unkills JPEG XL?
Google's Chromium team reversed its decision to drop JPEG XL support, now planning to implement it in Blink, which could make it a de facto standard for images.
also on JPEG XL, AVIF, #browser-engineering, Google
Guillaume Técher
Chrome uses JPEG partial IDCT scaling to decode only low-frequency data when rendering images at small scales, causing icons to render thicker due to lost edge detail, a behavior not shared by Firefox.
also on AVIF, #web-development, #user-experience, #developer-tools