Context: Even though Chromium has native support for AVIF, a very nice image format, Microsoft goes out of their way to remove it from Edge, which is a chromium fork. Jpeg XL (JXL) (not to be confused with Jpeg (JPG) or Jpeg 2000 (jpg2k) ) is another nice image format, which, IIRC, is only supported in Firefox.

    • renzev@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      8·
      6 months ago

      When it comes to pronunciations of obscure computer acronyms, my favourite is btrfs (the filesystem), because I’ve never seen anyone advocate for any specific pronunciation, not even the devs/official documentation. Bee Tree Eff Ess? Bee Tee Arr Eff Ess? Butter Eff Ess? Better Eff Ess? Whatever bloats your goat!

    • swooosh@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 months ago

      N. Just google removed it from chromium. I can view jxl on android, so it’s not dead. And samsung S24 (iirc) will use jxl to save pictures

    • Lojcs@lemm.ee
      17·
      6 months ago

      Someone needs to make a website that uses jxl heavily then contact a journalist about a weird website they found that opens 10x faster in safari vs chrome

      • renzev@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        I said it in another comment, but I’m actually working on a website right now, which happens to lazy-load a lot of images with Javascript. I think I’ll store all the images in webp, avif, and JXL formats, and have the javascript code automatically load the one which is supported by the browser. Hopefully if it takes off, it can promote support for modern image formats!

    • VBB@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      WebKit has support for it (used in Safari and Epiphany). Last time I checked firefox didn’t have support. There is an issue in chromium bug tracker to add support for jxl where Adobe, Intel, Krita and probably others representatives said that they are insterested in the format. But this issue was closed because “no big companies are interested in jxl”.

  • lud@lemm.ee
    3·
    6 months ago

    Safari is the only browser that supports Jpeg XL. Firefox does support it if you enable a flag but IIRC from bugzilla their implementation is currently not great.

    If a browser feature needs to be enabled with a flag it’s not really supported since an extremely tiny portion of users will be able to use it, and it’s often buggy.

    https://caniuse.com/jpegxl

  • psvrh@lemmy.ca
    3·
    6 months ago

    Look, I remember the early 1990s fondly, too, but I’m not eager to relive them.