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Yet it supports AVIF, a a directly competing format ...

There is nothing neutral about supporting one format and not supporting another.




If the functionality is effectively the same then supporting one of two formats reduces the attack surface for security exploits for little loss.


> If the functionality is effectively the same

If it were people wouldn't be pushing for JPEG-XL.

I'm not going to repeat the advantages of JEPG-XL - plenty of posts on that already.

For some bizarre reason, Mozilla chooses to back the other format - release Firefox can display AVIF right now - while leaving JPEG-XL stuck behind a flag in a Nightly.




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