[HlessClaudesman]

Crappy as a .jpg, only bigger.

Actually, I remember when JPEG XL came out, and I just thought: cool, file that one away for when I have a really big image I need to display. Which turned out to be never.

Names have consequences.

[gcr]

I regularly work with images larger than 65,535px per side.

WEBP can only do 16,383px per side and the AVIF spec can technically do 65,535, but encoders tap out far before then. Even TIFF uses 32-bit file offsets so can't go above 4GB without custom extensions.

Guess which format, true to its name, happens to support 1,073,741,823px per side? :-)

[crazygringo]

> Crappy as a .jpg, only bigger.

Honestly, that's exactly what it sounds like to me too. I know it's not, but it's still what it sounds like. And it's just way too many letters total. When we have "giff" and "ping" as one-syllable names, "jay-peg-ex-ell" is unfortunate.

Really should have been an entirely new name, rather than extending what is already an ugly acronym.

[sillysaurusx]

I’ll never not say pee-en-gee. You’re right though.

[NekkoDroid]

I always have called it PNG pee-en-ji, and JPEG XL for me has p much all the time been jay-x-el.