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JPEG XL is similarly an algorithm that's been published, but Google removed it from their browser and Mozilla followed suit, which effectively killed its useful
by jacobgkau 1y ago
JPEG XL is similarly an algorithm that's been published, but Google removed it from their browser and Mozilla followed suit, which effectively killed its usefulness as a web-friendly (and, more generally, usable-anywhere) format.
- Vinnl 1y agoSome nuance there — it's not dead yet: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064 https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064
- eviks 1y agoThanks, do you know the status of said safe decoder?
- Vinnl 1y agoI do not, sorry.
- GCUMstlyHarmls 1y ago> the reference decoder, which weighs in at more than 100,000 lines of multithreaded C++. Wow! I have never written a compression codec implementation, but that's kind of staggering.