"Experimental flags and code should not remain indefinitely"
Why wasn't AVIF hidden behind an experimental flag?
"There is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG XL"
This is gaslighting. The representatives of companies such as Adobe, Facebook, Intel, The Guardian or Shopify have voiced their support for the format. Not to mention the countless individuals. I don't recall AVIF getting anywhere near this level of interest.
"The new image format does not bring sufficient incremental benefits over existing formats to warrant enabling it by default"
BTW, this article doesn't even mention all of the JPEG XL's advantages. For instance, it doesn't mention the high resolution support. AVIF images are limited to 65536x65536, but images larger than 8192x4352 must be tiled, which results in border artifacts between the tiles. JPEG XL, on the other hand, has no problems with images up to 1073741823x1073741823.
It's true, although it should be noted that this is the result of the Chromium team acting in bad faith and gaslighting the users.
These are the stated reasons for the removal of JPEG XL: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805...
"Experimental flags and code should not remain indefinitely"
Why wasn't AVIF hidden behind an experimental flag?
"There is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG XL"
This is gaslighting. The representatives of companies such as Adobe, Facebook, Intel, The Guardian or Shopify have voiced their support for the format. Not to mention the countless individuals. I don't recall AVIF getting anywhere near this level of interest.
"The new image format does not bring sufficient incremental benefits over existing formats to warrant enabling it by default"
Really? https://cloudinary.com/blog/the-case-for-jpeg-xl
BTW, this article doesn't even mention all of the JPEG XL's advantages. For instance, it doesn't mention the high resolution support. AVIF images are limited to 65536x65536, but images larger than 8192x4352 must be tiled, which results in border artifacts between the tiles. JPEG XL, on the other hand, has no problems with images up to 1073741823x1073741823.