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Re:JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium by thrillgore on Saturday December 10, 2022 @10:49AM (#33933593)
It competes with WebP?
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Re:JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium by arglebargle123 on Saturday December 10, 2022 @11:58AM (#33934188)
This seems vaguely familiar, I wonder where I've seen another dominant browser vendor engage in anticompetitive behaviour before?
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Re:JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium by pornel on Saturday December 10, 2022 @02:16PM (#33935784)
Google has added AVIF.

In both cases the reason was that they've already invested in the video codec powering them, and the 1-frame-video-as-image format was almost free to add.

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Re:JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium by jonsneyers on Saturday December 10, 2022 @05:50PM (#33937870)
This "two for one" reasoning does have some downsides though. Here I listed ten of them:

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1596965036131426304?s=...

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