JPEG XL is Dead. Long Live JPEG XL
JPEG XL is Dead. Long Live JPEG XL
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Given these positive signals, we would welcome contributions
Poor Google doesn't have the manpower to implement it. They can only accept contributions from volunteers.
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Google is just a small indie company after all.
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Don't worry, they can spare some 20 percent time
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"we would welcome contributions to integrate a performant and memory-safe JPEG XL decoder in Chromium. In order to enable it by default in Chromium we would need a commitment to long-term maintenance."
yeah
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Finally.
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I would be more excited about JPEG XL if it was backward compatible. Not looking forward to yet another image standard that requires OS and hardware upgrades simply so servers can save a few bytes.
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How would a new format be backwards-compatible? At least JPEG-XL can losslessly compress standard jpg for a bit of space savings, and servers can choose to deliver the decompressed jpg to clients that don't support JPEG-XL.
Also from Wikipedia:
Computationally efficient encoding and decoding without requiring specialized hardware: JPEG XL is about as fast to encode and decode as old JPEG using libjpeg-turbo
Being a JPEG superset, JXL provides efficient lossless recompression options for images in the traditional/legacy JPEG format that can represent JPEG data in a more space-efficient way (~20% size reduction due to the better entropy coder) and can easily be reversed, e.g. on the fly. Wrapped inside a JPEG XL file/stream, it can be combined with additional elements, e.g. an alpha channel.
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All you have to do is add a small traditional JPEG image at the start of the file. It doesn’t have to be high resolution or more than a couple of kb. The new format decoder would know this, and skip the traditional jpeg “header”, rendering the newer file format embedded in the image.
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It requires neither of those upgrades though? Unless you're still using Windows XP I guess for some reason. It's just an update to the image decoder
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I just want a picture of a got-dang hot dog.
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I just use old JPEGs. Not JPEG2000, not PNG, not WebP, not JPEG XL.
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Everyone should just be using AV1 at this point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1
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Those idiots waited for 4 years because they followed the hype of the moment. I'm glad I removed Google from my life.
This must be your first time seeing what Google support looks like
This is pretty standard unless you can get an exec’s personal attention.
https://killedbygoogle.com/
Absolutely, google does that shit constantly, well known within the internet standards community