JPEG XL Advocacy

Discussions promote JPEG XL as a superior image format to AVIF and WebP, highlighting its features like lossless JPEG recompression and HDR support, while debating browser adoption and controversies.

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IAmLiterallyAB Jan 10, 2021 View on HN

Not sure about AVIF but JPEG XL has exactly that

Explore3003 Sep 18, 2023 View on HN

JPEG XL support would be great!

Socket-232 Jan 21, 2026 View on HN

Why use AVIF when JPEG XL is much better and in a few weeks almost universally supported?

ksec Feb 19, 2020 View on HN

JPEG XLThe JPEG XL Image Coding System (ISO/IEC 18181) has produced an open source reference implementation available on the JPEG XL Gitlab repository. The software is available under Apache 2, which includes a royalty-free patent grant. Speed tests indicate the multithreaded encoder and decoder outperforms libjpeg-turbo. Independent subjective and objective evaluation experiments have indicated competitive performance with commonly used image coding solutions while offering new funct

thehappypm Dec 10, 2022 View on HN

If JPEG XL was actually utilised they would not be deprecating it

rcme Jun 6, 2023 View on HN

Is there any benefit to JPEG XL (over other formats) other than old JPEGs can be losslessly re-encoded?

pmarreck Sep 7, 2025 View on HN

JPEG-XL, your time has come? ;)

amq Aug 26, 2023 View on HN

Would be interesting to additionally see JPEG XL.

sys42590 Jun 6, 2023 View on HN

How does JPEG XL compare to e.g. WebP?

bjoli Dec 10, 2025 View on HN

What does it bring over jpegxl?