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Konukaame t1_iualktz wrote

Reply to comment by C1ickityC1ack in Google Chrome Is Already Preparing To Deprecate JPEG-XL by leo_sk5

JPEG-XL (.jxl) is a new image format, and can be loosely understood to be an update to JPEG (.jpg/.jpeg).

Depreciation Deprecation means that they're dropping support for it, so if Chrome encounters a .jxl file, it won't know what to do with it.

That said, only Chromium and Firefox Nightly even had support for it in the first place, so unless you were using one of those and going somewhere that actually had .jxl content, this makes no difference in your life.

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C1ickityC1ack t1_iuam9ni wrote

Thank you kind computer person.

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Thirpunasorec t1_iuapnsn wrote

IM A COMPUTER, STOP ALL THE DOWNLOADING!

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Ialwaysassume t1_iubh95h wrote

“Give him the stick”……..

“DON’T GIVE HIM THE STICK”

Oooooooooooooooooooo

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Yokhen t1_iue6vmh wrote

Excuse me? I'm not doing anything to you, lady.

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streakermaximus t1_iuanltf wrote

So it's a new format that didn't take off. Groovy.

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leo_sk5 OP t1_iuar7bo wrote

That would have been seen when it would be properly supported by browsers. Chrome pushed webp support and made it commonplace across net, even though it finds no usage elsewhere. JPEG-XL to be fair took a significant time in development, but axing it in the monopoly browser means that any chance of adoption on web is fairly slim, and that would affect further adoption even if it is used in other cases, such as smartphone images (android is also google though)

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zoinkability t1_iuaty8s wrote

The part that makes people skeptical is the fact that Google has their own competing next gen format. The fact that they went to the trouble of supporting it, then axed support, is a very fishy look.

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TronKiwi t1_iuar9p4 wrote

Barely relevant but it's deprecate not depreciate (in this usage).

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angrathias t1_iucy29m wrote

You described Obsoletion not deprecation. Deprecate means ‘do not use any more’ usually because it’s replaced with something better. Still supported though.

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