| Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome(developer.chrome.com) | |
| 564 points by AshleysBrain 6 days ago | 387 comments | |
tl;dr: Chrome 155 will ship JPEG XL decoding support, reversing its earlier 2022 removal of the format following sustained developer demand via the Interop Project. The decoder is a new pure-Rust implementation (jxl-rs) built for memory safety, using a new SIMD abstraction layer to match the performance of the C++ reference library. Google recommends testing both AVIF and JPEG XL, with JXL being particularly suited for high-fidelity/lossless photographic compression and progressive decoding. | |
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