JPEG XL support

[Weissrolf]

Hello. With the JPEG XL format being frozen, a free decoding library being available and browser support slowly trickling in, are there plans for JPEG XL support in PixiJS?

[Weissrolf]

Someone claimed that Pixi already supports Jpeg XL, is that true?

[bigtimebuddy]

Pixi does not support JPEG XL. Generally, Pixi does not do bleeding-edge web features until there is widespread adoption. Currently, many browser still only support JPEG XL with feature flags.

The best opportunity to use this new format is if the community develops a loader plugin to decode in software. The core team has no plans to develop such a plugin yet.

[Weissrolf]

Thanks for the information.

[OmegaRogue]

Any update on this? In 3 days Safari will have Jpegxl support in stable

[SuperSodaSea]

There are still very little browsers that support JPEG XL (< 1%). Maybe we can add a method like PIXI.loadTextures.addFormat({ mime: 'image/jxl', extension: '.jxl' }), so that users can extend the format that @pixi/assets can load, if they want to load some new format.

[OmegaRogue]

If a method like that is added, how would i go about adding support for the format myself? I'm asking this as someone completely outside the PixiJS project, tho I work on a third party client for FoundryVTT, which does use PixiJS, and PixiJS supporting JPEGXL is one of the requirements for everything to support JPEGXL

[OmegaRogue]

There are still very little browsers that support JPEG XL (< 1%). Maybe we can add a method like PIXI.loadTextures.addFormat({ mime: 'image/jxl', extension: '.jxl' }), so that users can extend the format that @pixi/assets can load, if they want to load some new format.

Also, that percentage will definitely rise once safari 17 is released in a few days