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Re:JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium by simplotek on Saturday December 10, 2022 @10:23AM (#33933344)
> Do we know why they chose to remove it?

Phoenix had an article on why Google decided to remove JPEG-XL.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Dropping-JPEG-XL-Reason...

The official justification seems to be a) experimental nature of JPEG-XL, b) lack of demand, c) maintenance burden.

Take it with a grain of salt. Personally I don't buy it.

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Re:JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium by mariusmg on Saturday December 10, 2022 @10:31AM (#33933417)
>experimental nature of JPEG-XL

I wonder what exactly they mean by this because JPEG-XL is a ISO standard. So if it's already standardized, how the heck is still "experimental" ?

https://www.iso.org/standard/77977.html

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Re:JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium by JyrkiAlakuijala on Saturday December 10, 2022 @10:39AM (#33933484)
JPEG XL was implemented in Chrome behind a flag.

Other than that there is nothing experimental in JPEG XL.

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Re:JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium by simplotek on Saturday December 10, 2022 @12:11PM (#33934333)
> I wonder what exactly they mean by this because JPEG-XL is a ISO standard.

I see there's some confusion. A specification might be formalized in an international standard, but implementations of said standard can and often are experimental.

You don't magically turn code production-ready by having a committee sign off on a document.

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Re:JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium by masklinn on Saturday December 10, 2022 @02:10PM (#33935717)
> I wonder what exactly they mean by this because JPEG-XL is a ISO standard.

So were JPEG-XR and MJPEG2000.

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Re:JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium by quikee on Saturday December 10, 2022 @11:41PM (#33940165)
and neither of your examples is experimental
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