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A comment on Google's decision to deprecate JPEG-XL emphasizes the need for browser choice.

Re:Google's decision to deprecate JPEG-XL emphasizes the nee... by jerryX on Thursday April 13, 2023 @08:02AM (#35554111)
Chromium 934 stars, 397 comments: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805...

Firefox: 434 upvotes, 61 comments: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/idb-p/ideas/status-key/...

Official support software list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XL#Official_support

Comparison/benchmarks: https://cloudinary.com/blog/contemplating-codec-comparisons

Feature comparison: https://jpegxl.info/comparison.png

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Re:Google's decision to deprecate JPEG-XL emphasizes the nee... by olliej on Friday April 14, 2023 @01:10AM (#35565739)
Votes and comments aren’t a measure of popularity or importance. They’re super easily skewed by specific communities deciding to hammer the reports or similar - often about things they don’t have technical understanding of.

Other examples would be when Libc++ announced adding bounds checking by default and a huge number of people (from HN and similar) came in to provide votes/+1s or comments with little actual technical feedback

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