JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium
What&#x27;s up with this JPEG XL cult in hacker news? I think the Chrome team pretty much handled this in the best way possible. They put everything in public and allowed anyone to comment on their main thread. They responded to lot of the comments. They seems to have their best intention in having JPEG XL implementation in chrome but the team decided it&#x27;s not worth it, which is a valid decision for someone doing ROI analysis, after all engineers specialising in this are not cheap. It&#x27;s like everyone is hinting at some conspiracy by Google here that is not there as they spent time in the spec and wanted to promote this.<p>Even I think the incremental 20% gain of JPEG XL is probably not worth the security risk and increased maintenance. JPEG decoders had been targeted so many times in the past even though it had been audited by best security folks.