"Yes, re-opening.".
> Given these positive signals, we would welcome contributions to integrate a performant and memory-safe JPEG XL decoder in Chromium. In order to enable it by default in Chromium we would need a commitment to long-term maintenance. With those and our usual launch criteria met, we would ship it in Chrome.
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/WjCKc...
LOL. Google, the "yeah that thing we bought six months ago, we're killing it off 30 days for 4 weeks ago" company demanding "long-term" anything.
Context: Mozilla has had the same stance and many devs (including Googlers) are already working on a Rust decoder which has made good progress.