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Come on, how often has Google been the first to enable new browser features forcing the hand of Mozilla and Apple? Google know they are the gatekeepers of web t
by biftek 4y ago
Come on, how often has Google been the first to enable new browser features forcing the hand of Mozilla and Apple? Google know they are the gatekeepers of web tech. This is just a way for them to kill the format
- DannyBee 4y agoPeople complain to high heaven google shouldn't get to decide. Great, so then convince the others, don't rely on Google to do it. As for killing the format - Google maintains libjxl, the jpeg-xl reference impl, and has for years. But like, if the people maintaining the reference impl for years really want to kill the format, maybe we should at least understand why? They've been in the thick of it, after all. Controlling an image format is basically worthless for a company like Google. Especially since they are always royalty free so far. The cost to Google in bandwidth/storage/etc of images is much greater than than they could ever make off control. (Unlike, say, Adobe or someone)