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The case against JPEG XL
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Hacker News | Sep 14, 2026 | contact9879
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Investigating JPEG XL's place as a Web image codec. Is this all it took to justify JPEG XL for the Web? Some reasons: JPEG XL doesn't have directional prediction modes. Decode Time JPEG XL has an impressively flexible specification. The JPEG was 2,478,828 bytes, the JPEG XL was 2,599,428, the AVIF 2,649,949, and WebP 2,693,794.
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