Right. And that particular use-case sounds nice, but realistically this new format will not be exclusively used in that particular case.
Dealing with basically another .webp-like format in those cases (one that might be a backwards-compatible jpeg or might not and determining that can only be done by inspecting the file contents) doesn't sound super fun.
So ideally, to make up names, I wish they'd used separate extensions and so a ".jp3" is a file that can be downconverted to a jpg and you could get a browser extension to automate that for you if you wanted, and a ".jxl" is the new file format that's functionally another ".webp"-like thing to deal with and all the pain-points that implies.
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Right. And that particular use-case sounds nice, but realistically this new format will not be exclusively used in that particular case.
Dealing with basically another .webp-like format in those cases (one that might be a backwards-compatible jpeg or might not and determining that can only be done by inspecting the file contents) doesn't sound super fun.
So ideally, to make up names, I wish they'd used separate extensions and so a ".jp3" is a file that can be downconverted to a jpg and you could get a browser extension to automate that for you if you wanted, and a ".jxl" is the new file format that's functionally another ".webp"-like thing to deal with and all the pain-points that implies.