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by masklinn 1283 days ago
> 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).
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dmitriid 1283 days ago
> 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)

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Earwig 1283 days ago
> 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.

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