- Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced Interop 2024, a project to promote web browser interoperability.
- JPEG XL, a potential replacement for JPEG and PNG image formats, was not included in Interop 2024.
- The rejection of JPEG XL has been blamed on Google, with the Google Chrome team deciding not to support the image compression technology.
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If Google says chromium won’t support a feature it won’t be used. The majority of browsers are Chromium under the hood.
A third party adaptation of Chromium could add support for other formats, the ones we know about right now just don’t bother.