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by izacus 1049 days ago
At this point this just seems like one of those internet religious wars instead of anything actually tecnically usable.

I bet after (re)introduction, most of people yelling for it won't actually convert their JPEGs to XL. Just like almost noone whining about Reader actually uses or pays for any of the alternatives.

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> I bet after (re)introduction, most of people yelling for it won't actually convert their JPEGs to XL.

The idea is converting workflows to JPEG XL (and particularly to enable uses for which JPEG isn’t suitable and even AVIF is supposedly less optimal), not converting existing JPEGs, mainly.