Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024)

Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by jacobgkau on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @05:09AM (#44308078)

JPEG XL is similarly an algorithm that's been published, but Google removed it from their browser and Mozilla followed suit, which effectively killed its usefulness as a web-friendly (and, more generally, usable-anywhere) format.

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by Vinnl on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @05:22AM (#44308150)

Some nuance there — it's not dead yet: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by eviks on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @06:53AM (#44308707)

Thanks, do you know the status of said safe decoder?

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by Vinnl on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @04:32PM (#44313060)

I do not, sorry.

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by GCUMstlyHarmls on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @09:31AM (#44309748)

> the reference decoder, which weighs in at more than 100,000 lines of multithreaded C++.

Wow! I have never written a compression codec implementation, but that's kind of staggering.

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