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Browser maker love-in snubs Google-shunned JPEG XL (www.theregister.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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  • Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced Interop 2024, a project to promote web browser interoperability.
  • JPEG XL, a potential replacement for JPEG and PNG image formats, was not included in Interop 2024.
  • The rejection of JPEG XL has been blamed on Google, with the Google Chrome team deciding not to support the image compression technology.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Thanks to wasm, you don't have to bow to Google's whim and can choose to include jpeg xl support on your websites if you want: https://github.com/niutech/jxl.js

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you know if it uses the native decoder if available (so, in Safari I guess)? Doesn't say in the readme.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I believe so. This line in the source code means it'll only attempt the decoding if an img element for a .jxl image url fails to load.

If you're on safari, you can verify it by going to the demo page at https://niutech.github.io/jxl.js/ and inspect the image element. If the src attributes contain blob, then it's decoded using the wasm decoder. If the src attribute contains url to a .jxl file, then it's decoded natively.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Very cool, thanks. Will keep this in mind.