Comment by dpark

Comment by dpark 2 days ago

This is a vacuous statement. No one is stopping me from using JPEG XL in the same sense that no one is stopping me from using DIMG10K, a format I just invented. But if I attempt to use either of these in my website today, Chrome will not render them.

In a very real sense Google is currently stopping web authors from using JPEG XL.

jeffbee 2 days ago

The web was designed from the start to solve this problem and you can serve alternate formats to user agents which will select the one they support.

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dpark 2 days ago

Your statement here amounts to “you can serve JPEG XL to other browsers, just not Chrome”.
Yeah, that’s what I said.

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- jeffbee 2 days ago
  
  This is the way of web. Sites don't get to dictate what the user agent does. The clue is in the name: user agent.
  
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  dpark 2 days ago
  
  Okay. So putting it together…
  If the user agent does not support JPEG XL, then you cannot use it.
  “Nobody is stopping you from using jpegxl” except Google.
  
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