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Sadly, unless many webmasters do it, it'll likely feel like "your site is broken" instead of "Chrome is broken" to users.

Maybe with a banner like "You are using Chrome. You might have a degraded experience due to the lack of support for better image formats. Consider Firefox".

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Provide alternative formats, making the browser autoselect. Or provide a JXL polyfill.

In either case: Have Chrome telemetry report home that "user could have 20% faster page load with JXL support".

JXL polyfill is definitely the way to go to force Chrome's hand.

It’s not going to force Google’s hand. Using a polyfill will slow page loads and adds additional fragility.

Nothing changes for Chrome users, especially sites using the <picture> element where the first supported image format is used.

It will slow page loads for Chrome and browsers not supporting it but it will be blazing fast on Safari. You keep the file size savings and high image quality.

I’m sure YouTubers and tech sites will love to do Safari vs Chrome (and Co.) content to spread the message that Chrome is inferior.

Feels a little like a déjà vu from an older browser by a big company that had a monopoly.. IMO, the sad truth is that what will happen is that JXL simply won't be used because it's not worth it to lose customers in exchange for a few kilobytes saved. Google has won, it has a monopoly on search, advertisement and the browser and decides de facto of all standards.

Chrome did not settle things with its decision to not use JXL at this time.

(WASM) Polyfill and we're done.

> Feels a little like a déjà vu from an older browser by a big company that had a monopoly..

Any resemblance with previous events would be totally unintentional, of course :-)

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