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Re:JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium by Macha on Saturday December 10, 2022 @11:34AM (#33933964)
> It took the other browsers up to a decade to support WebP, who wants to do that again?

Google, with AVIF

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Re:JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium by masklinn on Saturday December 10, 2022 @02:06PM (#33935683)
> Google, with AVIF

Google is a major contributor to JXL.

AVIF, as an outgrowth of AV1, has support from every major browser publisher, with the possible exception of Microsoft (though they are a governing member of AOM) as they're the only one which isn't shipping AVIF support right now (and as of October): https://caniuse.com/?search=AVIF

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Re:JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium by phillipseamore on Saturday December 10, 2022 @12:16PM (#33934384)
Huh? AVIF is an image format offspring of AV1 from the Alliance for Open Media which founding members include Apple, Mozilla and Google.

AV1 and AVIF is landing in all browsers. They get the AVIF support for free when they implement the AV1 decoder.

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Re:JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium by peppermint_gum on Saturday December 10, 2022 @12:58PM (#33934868)
>They get the AVIF support for free when they implement the AV1 decoder.

No, it isn't free. You have to implement the support for the AVIF container. This is why libavif exists.

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