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Chrome removed support for JPEG XL last year, see e.g. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/free-software-group-...

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Sept. 3rd:

> the team at Google has agreed to apply their subject matter expertise to build a safe, performant, compact, and compatible JPEG-XL decoder in Rust

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064

Shame that Mozilla is giving in to Google. It just looks like a delaying tactic - they don't want JPEG-XL to become popular because once JPEG-XL reaches a particular threshold of adoption, other similar encoding formats won't be able to compete with it.

I agree on the “shame” part, also I do not get why it has to be yet another encode, there already is one Rust even, jxl-oxide. Why not take this one and expand it or improve it?…

On the delaying tactic, you might be right, I want to be cautiously optimistic =)

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