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iPhone 16 Pro Supports JPEG-XL Format
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I'm still salty with heic. A couple of years ago I was on an important project and took at least 300 photo/video of the progress and uploaded them to OneDrive. Nobody could open them at the time. The work around was to buy some $.99 extension opener from the Microsoft Store because Microsoft was too cheap to bake it into Windows.
Various creative professionals need a wider variety of file formats than those two formats.
HEIC, WebP, JPEX-XR, etc
Auto-conversion tools would be nice
Browsers for very obvious reasons prioritize royalty-free stuff prioritizing small file sizes and so on over stuff for premium/best representation of video/photos that is typically proprietary or not royalty-free such as a lossless format and Dolby Vision HDR.
Browsers typically don't fully align on the exceptions and formats they support making image/video CDNs invaluable to conditionally serve the best image format among the ones a browser supports using the "Accepts" header of requests a particular browser receives.
When I work on Websites, I use a Image CDN to conditionally serve JPEG-XR, WebP, or AVIF (the best one widely supported thus far) on the Websites for clients.
This is particularly invaluable for Websites highlighting fashionistas, product designers, and photographers.
Browsers evolve their media/DRM support matrix occasionally independently from each other necessitating these techniques–even the browsers that use the same engine.
JPEG XL also supports hdr photography
Better than AVIF? There's trade-offs such as how they fare with illustrations (admittedly an edge case as SVGs should be prioritized for such use cases) and animated photos (AVIF is massively superior unsurprisingly being based on AV1 video codec).
Unless absolutely necessary, never do conversion from a lossy format to a another lossy format - it always lowers the detail and can also introduce unwanted visual artefacts.
It doesn’t. The support would be for anyone upgrading to iOS 18. Hasn’t been part of the betas so either is in the RC or Apple is launching in a later iOS update.
From your previous comments... Are you confusing with JPEG XR and JPEG XL?
Why? That would result in files with lower quality and higher file size. So worse all around. Unless you mean batch converting to jpeg xl in which case you may want to wait until more os level and app support. With Apple adding some support to Mac last year and then Google reversing course and will supporting, there is a lot of momentum for this royalty free format to take over but will take time. And more robust converters will popup.
I did this a few years ago. It was obvious .heic wasn't going to catch on and too many issues in my multiplatform ecosystem (work is Windows, home is Mac, work phone is Android, personal phone is iOS), I decided I rather have the simplicity of JPEG.
When I import hdr jxl files created in photoshop into photos(lossless or lossy), the colours get weird and there are subtle pastel-coloured compression-looking artifacts, especially on sky/white parts that for example heic and avif doesn't get after import. I've tried both P3 and rec.2020 and both seems to have an issue after being imported. Maybe after macos 15/ios18 are out of beta this bug gets fixed, until then i'll stick to avif for hdr photos.
Because there is dedicated hardware to support it?
Like the new encoder of A18 Pro?
Like the reduced transfer speeds (for data) from the new Fusion sensors?
Is there a chance that JPEG-XL will come to 15 Pro / 15 Pro Max? I'm using 48mp HEIF Max as my default camera setting and it looks like JPEG-XL is impressive enough to provide a notable image quality upgrade on its own.
The new 48mp ultrawide sensor & faster 48mp sensor on the 16 Pro / 16 Pro Max looks interesting, but I'm honestly more interested in JPEG-XL. I use google photos and Lightroom and I'd expect JPEG-XL to play a lot better with both of those than they do with my HEIF Max files once everything gets updated to provide 16 Pro series file support.
The new 48mp ultrawide sensor & faster 48mp sensor on the 16 Pro / 16 Pro Max looks interesting, but I'm honestly more interested in JPEG-XL. I use google photos and Lightroom and I'd expect JPEG-XL to play a lot better with both of those than they do with my HEIF Max files once everything gets updated to provide 16 Pro series file support.
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The first thing I do after any iOS upgrade is to confirm whether the camera format is still set to "Most Compatible"
This would implement limitations however.
From what I read and (marketing) info on their page (https://jpegxl.info/) it seems to be better. And even if it was on pair it still shines when it comes to features and benefits (and backward compatibility)
Has it been confirmed? From what I read they dropped it and there was no info about comming back to Chrome but the other day Firefox guys said they are open to including JXL support if it was written... in rust... by Google team
And you're apparently tech-literate enough to be able to convert them to JPGs, but decline them instead?
Sorry, but we'll have to disagree where the problem is in that process.
Yeah I thought maybe my comment implied it didn't. But I mean for all HEIC downsides, at least it doesn't interrupt graphic design workflow anymore. Webp too.