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Mozilla is one of the founding members of AoM backing AVIF/AV1. They're shipping AVIF support enlabled. The JPEG-XL bug hasn't received any news or updates for
by izacus 4y ago
Mozilla is one of the founding members of AoM backing AVIF/AV1. They're shipping AVIF support enlabled.
The JPEG-XL bug hasn't received any news or updates for at least a year now and the support is disabled on all stable builds (meaning: you can't even enable it with a flag since it's not compiled in). You can enable a flag on nightlies.
- jonsneyers 4y agoIt hasn't received news or updates because it has been locked. Basically Mozilla's position seems to be that they're not going to do anything on this front until Chrome does it first. I can only assume the decision makers at Mozilla feel the need to "prove their loyalty to the AOM", just like the Chrome codec devs, by blocking non-AOM codecs, in particular JXL.
- KingMob 4y agoOr, they just don't have the resources, market share, or interest to fight this battle. I can think of many better things FF should do other than try to push forward a new image format.
- JyrkiAlakuijala 4y agoIt is not a battle, everyone wants the same: to create the best experience for all the internet users by using free software. We can arrive to the best solution by listening, by creating and studying the evidence, and by discussion.
- hypothesis 4y agoSad joke was that they are waiting for an “alternative implementation”, yet I’m still shocked that Mozilla people are alluding to that elsewhere in this very thread. Unbelievable…