New Update Forthcoming JPEG XL image format scrapped from Chromium

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A note on Google's bug tracker for the Chromium browser specifies that version 110 won't get JPEG XL support after all.

The Chromium browser project is the open source upstream of what later becomes Google's Chrome browser, along with a host of other browsers including Microsoft Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, and Brave. The removal of JPEG XL means that none of these above browsers will be able to natively render JPEG XL images, and in turn that effectively dooms the new format, barring the unlikely event of the Mountain View megalith changing course.

Google drops forthcoming version of JPEG from Chromium

And just for balance nixes version 2 of its own format, WebP, as well

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The Case for JPEG XL

The recent decision by Chrome developers to no longer support JPEG XL has sent a ripple through the developer community and is a bit premature given the relative newness of the image format.

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