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Re:macOS 14 will support JPEG XL by lonjil on Monday June 05, 2023 @05:51PM (#36204390)
> Their justification was more that adding it would be committing a lot of hardware

Which is completely nonsensical. Hardware support is meaningless for web images.

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Re:macOS 14 will support JPEG XL by pgeorgi on Monday June 05, 2023 @06:15PM (#36204775)
Hardware accelerated handling was one of the arguments used to oppose a WASM based implementation that sites could use at will to prove that there's demand for JPEG-XL support (and that the Chrome team provides, by the way).
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Re:macOS 14 will support JPEG XL by lonjil on Monday June 05, 2023 @07:09PM (#36205557)
No it wasn't. WASM implementations are simply slower than native support. No browser uses HW accelerated decode for AVIF images or JXL. I think Safari might use HW for JPEG, but that's it across all browsers.
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Re:macOS 14 will support JPEG XL by pgeorgi on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @02:37PM (#36231361)
>> Hardware accelerated handling was one of the arguments used to oppose a WASM based implementation

> No it wasn't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33935355: "Wasm does not have the hardware acceleration necessary to efficiently do codecs."

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Re:macOS 14 will support JPEG XL by chungy on Monday June 05, 2023 @07:10PM (#36205579)
There's not much Google can do to stop sites from loading libjxl.wasm.
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