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Rasmus Schultz
@mindplay.dk

I'm so confused this is the opposite of everything we were hearing about JPEG-XL on recent years, like at the time when Google canned it over a patent spat with Microsoft is everything here outdated? jpegxl.info what happened? did AVIF suddenly go way beyond it's initial benchmarks? 🤷‍♂️

jpegxl.infoJPEG XL: Superior Image CompressionExplore JPEG XL, the next-generation image format delivering superior compression, fast encoding/decoding, and seamless JPEG transcoding. The future of image compression is here.

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Jake Archibald
@jakearchibald.com

I've been calling out misinformation on JPEG XL for years. Google didn't can it. They've been actively funding it. Many of the most active contributors to JPEG XL work at Google. The "Google is trying to silence JPEG XL" thing was pure conspiracy theory.

Rasmus Schultz
@mindplay.dk

really? but I saw the issue where Chromium maintainers removed it and closed it I don't remember the reason that was given, but I distinctly remember it being obviously bs and then the patent that both Google and Microsoft tried to snatch up you think that was all bs? 🤔

Jake Archibald
@jakearchibald.com

It was never released in Chrome. It was behind a flag, and getting stuff behind a flag in Chrome is a low bar. They looked at it, and decided it wasn't really worth it, so they didn't take the experiment further. Is that bs?

Rasmus Schultz
@mindplay.dk

the reason was I wish I could recall what it was anyhow, it looks like time ran away from JXL and maybe the AVIF crowd was right all along 😌