Google decided to abandon the experimental support of the format jpeg xl in the Chrome browser and completely remove its support in version 110 (so far the support of JPEG XL has been disconnected by default and required changing the parameter in Chrome: // Flags). One of the developers of Chrome called the reasons for this solution:
- experimental flags and code should not remain for an indefinite period.
- there is no sufficient interest on the entire ecosystem to continue experiments with JPEG XL.
- The new image format does not give sufficient additional advantages compared to existing formats to enable it by default.
- Removing the flag and code in Chrome 110 reduces the load on escort and allows you to focus on improving existing formats in Chrome.
In the meantime, in the Bagtrer, this problem is one of the most active, many large corporations, including Meta and Intel, showed interest in the format, and it supports many functions , inaccessible at the same time in any of the existing widespread images, such as JPEG, GIF, PNG and Google Webp, including HDR, almost endless sizes, up to 4099 channels, animation, large The range of depths of color, progressive loading, compression of JPEG without loss up to 21%, smooth deterioration of quality (re -processing JPEG destroys images) and, finally, it is free and completely with open source. There is the only well -known patent on Jpeg XL, but it has “ Prior Art “, so its application is under a big question.