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Re:JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium by JyrkiAlakuijala on Saturday December 10, 2022 @06:37PM (#33938246)
HEIF is an abstract concept like 'binary'. Saying that image is stored in binary doesn't tell much, the same for HEIF. JPEG XL can be stored in a HEIF container.

It wouldn't help with technical compatibility, and a container format containing everything under the sun is going to bring a lot of long-term support burden and attack surface with it. Also, it is going to bring chaos since no one supports the whole format but just some fraction of it.

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Re:JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium by Dylan16807 on Monday December 12, 2022 @08:34AM (#33954446)
> HEIF is an abstract concept like 'binary'

Okay.

> Saying that image is stored in binary doesn't tell much, the same for HEIF.

No, it tells plenty. It's more like saying "beat saber binary". Yeah, maybe it's a picture of Grandma inside, but it's very probably a song.

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