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I think the big difference since the recent threads is the news that Apple is adding support for JPEG XL to Safari. For HEIC, I understand, but it's weird that
by est31 3y ago
I think the big difference since the recent threads is the news that Apple is adding support for JPEG XL to Safari.
For HEIC, I understand, but it's weird that they are the only ones supporting JPEG XL while it is a royalty free open standard and the open source browsers don't support it.
- AprilArcus 3y agoWebKit (Safari's rendering engine) is open source. WebKit is a fork of KHTML and Blink (Chromium's rendering engine) is a fork of WebKit.
- est31 3y agoI am aware, but note that Safari relies on ImageIO for image decoding and AVFoundation for video decoding, two components of the proprietary OS. Chrome and Firefox on the other hand ship a lot of their own decoders. Those parts are not open source (nor is the GUI, while Chrome is open source also from the GUI point of view, it's really just a bunch of google-custom modifications/extensions that are closed).