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Intent to Ship: JPEG XL – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
hacks.mozilla.org/2026/08/intent-to-ship-jpeg-xl/🧨1
Replying to @lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com
What is the big gain over AVIF?
It’s great at lossless? but I never use lossless for web images
Replying to @Eyekaytee@aussie.zone
The argument for it is only lossless and progressive rendering. So if you have large files, it might be better to serve it as JXL, so it can show the image at least in some quality before it fully loads (for slow connections). If you have lossless files, then it's better also.
AVIF is better otherwise, so we will probably see AVIF become the new web image standard and JXL have a niche for higher quality images.
Replying to @warm@kbin.earth
If JXL is good for lossless, it’ll probably AVIF replacing JPEG and JXL replacing PNG.
Yup, that makes sense! It's about time we replaced them.