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Firefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL (with Google's help) (github.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Interestingly, the reference implementation libjxl appears to be a Google project. They're all over the patents file and CLA.

If Mozilla isn't merely being hopeful about having the same team create a Rust implementation, that might actually mean there's internal interest within Google. Assuming they pull it off, the bullshit reason for refusing to add JPEG XL to Chromium might finally stop being a blocker.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Google basically made jxl. I'm sure there's plenty of interested people in there, it's always just been the chromium team blocking it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's not the Chromium team. Google could have added JPEG XL to Android, but that's been stalled for nearly two years with zero explanation as for why.

The whole thing smells of managerial interference somewhere.