Technology @lemmy.world strawberry @kbin.earth 4w ago

Hows .jxl support these days?

I heard about this recently and decided to look into it. Seems neat. When I convert my existing .jpeg images to .jxl, they look identical, but take up only ~60% the space. Windows file explorer and paint dont support it however, but ImageGlass does. Considering converting all my images to .jxl to save on storage space (esp. cloud storage). Thoughts?

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Chrome decided not to support it because they want to push AVIF instead. Firefox followed suit. Then Apple actually decided to support JXL. It has a decent amount of support in desktop software. So it's basically fine for personal use, but don't expect to use it on the web unless Google changes their tune.
- Screw chrome tbh. You can always embed https://github.com/niutech/jxl.js on the page as a fallback decoder for browsers that don’t support it (yet).
It's in Firefox but disabled by default.

It's under the about:config settings in Firefox. Search for image.jxl.enabled and set it to true.
- Only in nightly unfortunately.
  
  It's only enabled by default in nightlies. It's in Firefox stable, just not enabled by default.
  
  Source: I am not using nightlies. I have it enabled in my browser. It's been there for over a year at least.
JPEG XL is awesome. I got 1/8 of the size converting (very small, like 800kB) PNGs to lossless JXL.

GIMP can open them I think, but can’t save them. ImageMagick supports it obviously and so does KDE’s image library so I get previews there and whatnot.

It really depends on what you want to use them with imo, if you view them in a specific program and that supports it, go for it.

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