Google Deletes JPEG XL Format, Whereas More Space Saves Weighted JPEG

Google will reportedly soon remove support for JPEG XL (photo: dock. google)

JAKARTA - Google will reportedly soon remove support for JPEG XL, a photo format that offers space savings with image quality excellence.

It is known, JPEG XL only needs much less storage space than JPEG, thus helping photographers to use the technology on their work.

However, Google has made preparations to stop supporting JPEG XL images in their browser. This can be seen in the delayed patch on the Google Chrome or Chromium browser stating the company will stop supporting the still experimental JPEG XL image format of their web browser.

Written on the patch, Chrome 110 or later will no longer support the JPEG XL image format.

In response to this, Google said that the new format does not provide benefits compared to the current format.

"During our experiment to support JPEG-XL in Chrome, we concluded that it does not provide great benefits to AVIF, and unlike AVIF, JPEG-XL has not been adopted by other browsers," Google said in a statement. a statement quoted from CNET, Friday, November 4.

"We don't plan to support JPEG-XL right now and vice versa will continue to focus on our efforts to improve the format in Chrome."

It is known, AVIF is an image file format developed by Alliance for Open Media which can be used by anyone. This format can store stationary images and animations with an.avif file extension, using lossless or lossy compression.

Launching The Register, the Chromium browser project is an open source upstream of what later became a Google Chrome browser, along with a number of other browsers including Microsoft Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, and Brave.

With the JPEG XL removed, meaning none of the above browsers will be able to render an image of the JPEG XL, and in turn effectively destroy that new format.

JPEG XL is not final, although it is already version 0.7.0 and the format is frozen at the end of 2020, so it is stable. He came from two previous image compression formats, namely FLIF and Google's own PIK.