Google Chrome is ready to abandon the JPEG-XL standard in version 110,

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Wu Yanzu in South China for the delivery of clues! CTOnews.com October 29, JPEG-XL is a royalty-free bitmap file format that supports lossy and lossless compression. It aims to go beyond existing bitmap formats and become a general alternative to them.

At present, its performance is much better than JPEG, so it is favored by many developers. Surprisingly, however, Google Chrome is already preparing to remove support for JPEG-XL images from its browser.

The current Chrome / Chromium version of ▲ allows JPEG-XL image format support CTOnews.com to be enabled. It has been learned that Chrome browsers have provided JPEG-XL (JXL) image format support through a function switch (chrome://flags/#enable-jxl) since the v91 version, while Google is considering abolishing this new image format in Chrome 110.

In fact, the JPEG-XL file format was only standardized last year, and the coding system was confirmed earlier this year, but it has been frozen and not formally adopted since the end of 2020.

As can be seen from the Google developer Bug list, Chrome / Blink's support for JPEGX-XL has been improving over the past year and is interested in JPEG-XL image format support.

But this morning, developers submitted a plan to scrap JPEG-XL support in Chrome / Chromium M110. If nothing happens, the JPEG XL format will be deprecated in Chrome version 110.

Officials have yet to confess their reasons for abandoning JPEG-XL, but given that Google has been actively promoting their WebP format and even studying WebP2, the result is not too disappointing.