From 0f16cff34442fff84c405e8cc32f757594f7c38d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rohan Kumar Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:57:27 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] New note: Google drops Webp2 and JPEG-XL --- content/notes/google-drops-jpeg-xl-and-webp2.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/notes/google-drops-jpeg-xl-and-webp2.md diff --git a/content/notes/google-drops-jpeg-xl-and-webp2.md b/content/notes/google-drops-jpeg-xl-and-webp2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b0548a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/notes/google-drops-jpeg-xl-and-webp2.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- +title: "Google drops Webp2 and JPEG-XL" +date: 2022-10-31T09:57:27-07:00 +--- +Earlier this month, Google re-branded its WebP2 repository to clarify that [WebP 2 will not be released as an image format.](https://chromium.googlesource.com/codecs/libwebp2/+/1251ca748c17278961c0d0059b744595b35a4943%5E%21/). This week, Google [deprecated Chromium's off-by-default JPEG-XL support](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=jpeg-xl), citing a lack of interest and improvement over existing formats. Most commits to [libjxl](https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl), the reference JPEG-XL implementation, are from "google.com" email addresses; I imagine that this decision could impact libjxl development. + +I doubt we'll be seeing new image formats on the Web for the next few years: there's [very incomplete JPEG-XL support in Firefox](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=jpeg-xl) and Safari only just got AVIF support + +JPEG-XL and WebP2 would have been great for lossless compression. The best lossless compression we currently have is WebP-lossless, which doesn't support e.g. higher color depths. For that, we're stuck with PNG. + +[POSSE](https://indieweb.org/POSSE) note from