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by scorpio241 1283 days ago
Not used anywhere? E.g. Affinity Photo has support for JPEG XL, but not for AVIF. Not used in browsers because they are nearly controlled by Chromium, which is clearly biased toward AVIF. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XL#Official_support Official support:

    Squoosh – In-browser image converter[42]
    Adobe Camera Raw – Adobe Photoshop's import/export for digital camera images[43]
    Affinity Photo – raster graphics editor[44]
    Chasys Draw IES – raster graphics editor[45]
    Darktable – raw photo management application[46]
    ExifTool – metadata editor[47]
    FFmpeg – multimedia framework, via libjxl[48]
    GIMP – raster graphics editor[49]
    gThumb – image viewer and photo management application for Linux[50]
    ImageMagick – toolkit for raster graphics processing[51]
    IrfanView – image viewer and editor for Windows[52]
    KaOS – Linux distribution[53]
    Krita – raster graphics editor[54][55]
    libvips – image processing library[56][57]
    vipsdisp – high-performance ultra-high-resolution image viewer for Linux[58]
    Qt and KDE apps – via KImageFormats[59]
    XnView MP – viewer and editor of raster graphics[60]
    Pale Moon – web browser[61]
2 comments

There's only one issue with this list - many of these applications also support AVIF, and were "sitting on the fence" over the issue, which should not be interpreted as a sign of JXL's success. And the ones that don't are very likely to fall in line after the Chromium decision.
> Not used anywhere? E.g. Affinity Photo has support for JPEG XL, but not for AVIF.

It also support PSDs. Should Chrome support PSDs?

> Not used in browsers because they are nearly controlled by Chromium, which is clearly biased toward AVIF.

Ah yes, Google, a major contributor to JXL, is "clearly biased towards AVIF".

I'm sure you'll find your saviours at Apple (governing member of AOM, shipped AVIF this year), Mozilla (governing member of AOM, shipped AVIF in June 2020, default-enabled in October 2021), or Microsoft (governing member of AOM).

> Ah yes, Google, a major contributor to JXL, is "clearly biased towards AVIF".

Why is it surprising to you? Many major companies are contributors to a bunch of standards that they don't end up supporting. Meanwhile Google is forcing device manufacturers to support its codecs in hardware on pain of sanctions and removing support and software. Guess which codec Google wants them to support (hint: AV1)

> Should Chrome support PSDs?

PSD is a pretty heavy format, and does not have the benefits for serving images to end users (e.g. good compression) that JPEG XL/AVIF have. So probably not. But there are still use cases for serving PSDs on the web in creative communities, so it would be pretty cool to have.