Any Chromium and Firefox browser prior to version 116 will be vulnerable to this, update your browsers.
Try linking one and sending it to someone else. I tried it and the recipient died two days later.
That’s weird, doesn’t it usually take seven?
There’s some politics involved. Basically, everyone is rallying behind JPEGXL instead of WebP, but Google refuses to support JPEGXL in Chrome. The reasoning they gave is weak, so it’s assumed that they’re just trying to force the format they invented on everyone because they can.
IIRC, performance of the two formats is similar.
JPEG XL, like AVIF and HEIC and WebP, is basically a next generation format that supports much higher quality at lower file sizes compared to JPEG and PNG.
Among those four formats, JPEG XL is promising because it allows for recompression of JPEG losslessly. That means if you take an image that was already encoded as JPEG (as the vast, vast majority of images are), you can recompress with no additional loss in quality from the conversion. That’s something that isn’t true of the others.
JPEG XL also has a much higher maximum quality and specific features great for high quality image workflows (like for professional photographers, publishers, and those who need to print images). WebP, AVIF, and HEIC are good for sharing on the web, but the printing and publishing workflow support requires a few more conversions along the way.
I thought this blog post by a cloud image delivery network that played a big role in developing JPEG XL was pretty persuasive, even if they had a direct interest in JPEG XL adoption.
It’s a format that most major image editors don’t support. Basically, if you wanted to do anything with it, you need to first convert it to a different format. It’s the only format that has this problem.
That’s fair except it’s not the only format that has this problem. There’s JPEG 2000 and AVIF which have even less image editor support.
I’m old enough to remember when the same argument was made for PNG files. It’s a stupid argument.
I think most people dislike it because Google made it. Google is evil as fuck, but it’s a damn good image format, obviously so since it’s way smaller for the same visuals compared to the older formats, plus it supports transparency. Google is evil but still makes good software sometimes.
