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		dpark 8 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google unkills JPEG XL? Your statement here amounts to “you can serve JPEG XL to other browsers, just not Chrome”. Yeah, that’s what I said.

jeffbee 8 days ago [–]

This is the way of web. Sites don't get to dictate what the user agent does. The clue is in the name: user agent.

dpark 8 days ago | [–]

Okay. So putting it together…

If the user agent does not support JPEG XL, then you cannot use it.

“Nobody is stopping you from using jpegxl” except Google.

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