- Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced Interop 2024, a project to promote web browser interoperability.
- JPEG XL, a potential replacement for JPEG and PNG image formats, was not included in Interop 2024.
- The rejection of JPEG XL has been blamed on Google, with the Google Chrome team deciding not to support the image compression technology.
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I’ve read a comparison of several newer file formats (avif, heic, webp) with jpeg-xl. The conclusion was that jpeg-xl was on par in terms of compression, sometimes better and very fast. also it can re-compress jpgs directly.
here’s an article describing it https://cloudinary.com/blog/the-case-for-jpeg-xl