They only reversed under pressure from the Safari and Firefox folks.
The killing of JXL did push the ever-talented Jyrki to create jpegli, which was honestly a wonder.
The killing of JXL did push the ever-talented Jyrki to create jpegli, which was honestly a wonder.
Jpegli is still a hidden gem. People don't yet understand how great it is.
It's really bizarre to me that this is presented as "killing the standard". Is Apple also killing mechanical keyboards and hobby electronics development because they're the only ones who don't support Web USB or Web Serial? I strongly prefer having JXL and Web USB/Serial in my browser (FF for the last 20 years), but come on. If we don't like how much power browsers have in software distribution, then maybe software distribution outside of browsers should get fixed.
* [0] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/522
* [1] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064
Obviously not, but they are killing as web standards the things they omit. At present for something to be standard it needs support from safari and chrome. That's just the current state of the world.
If tomorrow safari removed support for png that would effectively kill it as a web standard (assuming it didn't lead to mass revolt ofc).