Firefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL by bholley · Pull Request #1064 · mozilla/standards-positions
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Over the past few months, we’ve had some productive conversations with the JPEG-XL team at Google Research around the future of the format in Firefox. Our primary concern has long been the increase...
  • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    Think the headline kind of buries the lead. Firefox is basically holding google by the balls and saying “Make a better decoder if you want this shit to become standard” which imo is great. Force them to do what they should have done already.

    • JustMarkov@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      if you want this shit to become standard

      Since when Google is interested in promoting jxl and not webp?

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Google’s involvement is weird, not for any conspiracy reasons but because the chromium team previously cancelled JPEG-XL.

  • Redruth@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I have a nagging doubt; jpeg-xl has a very extensive feature set (text overlays, etc). meanwhile, tech/media consortia want a basic spec for AV1 + OPUS on chip and push that to all media capable devices. we can expect av1, avif and opus to be ubiquitous in a few years. So i think they will prioritise AVIF.

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I did some reading in AV1 and it’s derivative formats - are they any more accessible to Linux than HEVC/H265? Fedora IIRC removed support for them and a few other codecs out of the box over some patent concerns or something.