And soon Firefox will include it in Stable. During October it will go from Safari only to majority coverage. Eventful month!

While AVIF may have a slight edge in some cases like in fairly lossy compression, you won't really go _wrong_ with JPEG XL (unless strongly CPU constrained) and I think the strength of the format is its extreme versatility as a "be all end all image format" for some time where comparative performance depending on functionality ranges from respectable to excellent. It can work as a replacement for AVIF, PNG, JPEG, WebP, even certain TIFF required scenarios (high bit depth, multichannel, layers) depending on use cases.

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binaryturtle 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I don't see any advantage of any of the new formats over the good old and proven formats, so I stick with PNG and JPEG (properly optimized.) I can fire up any old browser and it will just work.

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ezfe 31 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

JXL has clear advantages and saying you don't see them means you either didn't attempt to see them or willfully ignore them

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smaudet 15 minutes ago | parent [-]

I'm not sure if the parent comment means to say, but I could choose to interpret their meaning to be:

PNG/JPEG have strong support (nearly everywhere). I think of them almost as the modern TIFF - relatively simple, and almost everything supports one or both of them (few to no issues).

JXL may eventually get there (that indeed seems to be its goal), but for now I wouldn't drop e.g. PNG or JPEG support in favor of JXL now.

And arguably, perhaps never drop support; its such a prevalent format, even if all software (prevalent or otherwise) supports the format in 10 years, there will be such a huge stockpile of JPEG/PNG that something will need to be used to read/convert.

	▲	spider-mario 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> I think of them almost as the modern TIFF - relatively simple TIFF is not simple at all. There is a joke that it stands for “Thousands of Incompatible File Formats”.

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RobotToaster 14 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

JXL supports extra channels for multispectral images.

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copperx 13 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

You should add that line to your resume.

	▲	groundzeros2015 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I’d hire him.

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groundzeros2015 7 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Being an “everything” image format sounds awful and something that’s over engineered and no person understands it.

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moebrowne 34 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Seems Firefox will get support in version 158

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YM...