Re:JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium
by wpietri on Saturday December 10, 2022 @10:49AM
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Yeah, to me this is another sign that Chrome's dominance is a menace to the open web. Whatever the best outcome is here, it's very concerning to me that a possibly important improvement can be blocked with so little meaningful explanation.
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Re:JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium
by arglebargle123 on Saturday December 10, 2022 @11:47AM
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The explanation is pretty plain: google controls the webp format, jxl competes with webp.
Re:JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium
by quikee on Saturday December 10, 2022 @10:46PM
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In what way does Google control WebP? They have frozen the format and nothing will be added to it. WebP2 was abandoned. Google is also involved with JPEG XL - actually some developers that worked on WebP now work on JPEG XL.
If someone controls something it is the Chromium/AOM/AVIF/AV1 team that controls and decides what multimedia formats go inside Chrome/Chromium thus controlling what is used on the web and ignoring what the web community has to say about it.