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> All it took was a Rust implementation I guess?

And Apple including support in their default graphics library so every iOS (and Mac) supported it. (I use Firefox, but let's not pretend like they'd move the market on JXL support.)

I just wrote a timeline here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445897

> 2024: Firefox says they will ship support if Google implements a Rust version

OOC, why does Firefox care what language Google used for their implementation?

They didn't want to add 100K lines of multithreaded C++, for security reasons. See https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064.

(I edited the timeline to clarify)

Since Sep 4, 2024: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064