For anyone curious - https://flif.info/
EDIT: am a dumbass, JPGXL extends from FLIF
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2025
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Everyone: "Stop using stuff made by Google that they make with intent of owning the web!"
Also everyone: "Don't you understand why WEBP is the best format??"
Idk Google for sure does a lot of that but do open image standards give them any control?
Google literally has a long history of promoting open formats to eventually close those open formats and make them less open.
GoogleTalk originally supported XMPP and then XMPP support was dropped when they changed it to "Google Hangouts."
Android was originally open source and still largely is, but now they're not publishing the device information for Pixel devices, putting actually open operating systems like LineageOS and GraphiteOS in the position of having to reverse engineer drivers to be able to move forward.
Chrome was originally a lot more open as well, but as Google gained market share dominance with their web browser, they made it slowly more and more closed off with only Chromium being really open, and they also used that market position to start to push their own solutions as web standards (what they've done with WEBP, actually) instead of having community input from the W3C.
A standardized file format isn't comparable to them changing software they own though. They can't "take back" WEBP and it's well-supported by basically everything these days. There's zero risk of a rug pull, so why wouldn't you use it when it's objectively better at compression compared to something like jpeg and gif?