Firefox will reconsider supporting JPEG XL if they get a Rust implementation:
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Firefox will reconsider supporting JPEG XL if they get a Rust implementation:
Firefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL by bholley · Pull Request #1064 · mozilla/standards-positions
Over the past few months, we’ve had some productive conversations with the JPEG-XL team at Google Research around the future of the format in Firefox. Our primary concern has long been the increase...
GitHub (github.com)
This is a very good news for web standards:
Kornel (@[email protected])
#WebStandards need two independent implementations of every feature. This proves that the spec is actually possible to implement, and makes it possible to verify that the implementations are interoperable. It makes uses in the wild much less likely to depend on bugs in a particular implementation, which makes it possible to upgrade or replace implementations without creating painful bug-compatibility problems.
Mastodon (mastodon.social)
and will fix a blocker that is hurting adoption of JPEG XL.
The reference implementation has unfortunately been written in C++ just as browser vendors started looking into migrating away from C++ for security reasons, and saw the C++ codec primarily as a big new attack surface.
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@kornel do
you happen to know Google’s latest stance on JPEG XL for Chrome?It was experimental but they pulled it, right? Are they reconsidering this now WebKit supports it?