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by vetinari 1105 days ago
TIFF is a container, it can have payload with different compression schemes, lossy or lossless. Including JXL.
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TIFF can be used as a container. It also comes with its own (relatively shitty) compression methods which is probably what you'd end up using if you wanted 16-bit TIFFs today.

And TIFF as a container for JXL would no less require JXL adoption than plain JXL.