Fans of the spec bemoan lack of transparency in Interop 2024 process
  • Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced Interop 2024, a project to promote web browser interoperability.
  • JPEG XL, a potential replacement for JPEG and PNG image formats, was not included in Interop 2024.
  • The rejection of JPEG XL has been blamed on Google, with the Google Chrome team deciding not to support the image compression technology.

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    • 2xsaikoEnglish
      5•8 months ago

      Do you know if it uses the native decoder if available (so, in Safari I guess)? Doesn’t say in the readme.

      • @[email protected]English
        12•8 months ago

        I believe so. This line in the source code means it’ll only attempt the decoding if an img element for a .jxl image url fails to load.

        If you’re on safari, you can verify it by going to the demo page at https://niutech.github.io/jxl.js/ and inspect the image element. If the src attributes contain blob, then it’s decoded using the wasm decoder. If the src attribute contains url to a .jxl file, then it’s decoded natively.

        • 2xsaikoEnglish
          1•8 months ago

          Very cool, thanks. Will keep this in mind.

    • TroyEnglish
      -10•8 months ago

      I read “wasm” as per “wasp” – white, Anglo-Saxon – and then my brain create “men” because Protestant didn’t make sense. And I continued to read the sentence until context didn’t make sense.

      But it still kind of does.

      (Yes, I know web assembly is a thing. Just making conversation.)