Mozilla Presents Their Plan For Shipping JPEG-XL In Firefox 157
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Looks like JPEG XL is BACK ON THE MENU BAYBEE!!

Not really news I guess, you already have JXL in some form in current Firefox but YIPEE etc

EDIT: I have become the JPEG-XL joker. When I make the news, the https://jpegxl.info/ url will be in my manifesto.

  • neo [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    101·
    2 months ago

    Google unilaterally murdered jxl some years ago, and now has resurrected it again. As usual, Firefox just playing catch-up.

    • flying_sheep@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Wrong, read the (original Mozilla) article:

      Shipping JPEG XL securely

      We added experimental support for JPEG XL behind a flag back in 2021. But, at 100,000 lines of multithreaded C++, we were concerned about the attack surface this added to Firefox.

      So, we laid down a challenge to the JPEG XL team at Google Research: Build a safe, performant, compact, and compatible JPEG XL decoder in Rust, and we’ll ship it. That challenge was met; Google Research built jxl-rs, and it’s the core of our JPEG XL support in Firefox.