Firefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL (with Google's help)
Over the past few months, we’ve had some productive conversations with the JPEG-XL team at Google Research around the future of the format in Firefox. Our primary concern has long been the increase...
JXL is based.
Google's involvement should always raise concerns but I guess it's good Mozilla is trying to improve stuff.
this is from the google research team, they contribute a LOT to many foss projects. Google is not a monolith, each team is made of often very different folk, who have very different goals
Think the headline kind of buries the lead. Firefox is basically holding google by the balls and saying "Make a better decoder if you want this shit to become standard" which imo is great. Force them to do what they should have done already.
This is not right on multiple levels. Google, or at least the chromium team were not interested in implementing jxl at all
maybe i misunderstood what they were saying on github then cuz to me it sounded like they were using their leverage as firefox to get a decoder made that was more secure.
Please let this happen!
Google's involvement is weird, not for any conspiracy reasons but because the chromium team previously cancelled JPEG-XL.
I have a nagging doubt; jpeg-xl has a very extensive feature set (text overlays, etc). meanwhile, tech/media consortia want a basic spec for AV1 + OPUS on chip and push that to all media capable devices. we can expect av1, avif and opus to be ubiquitous in a few years. So i think they will prioritise AVIF.
I did some reading in AV1 and it's derivative formats - are they any more accessible to Linux than HEVC/H265? Fedora IIRC removed support for them and a few other codecs out of the box over some patent concerns or something.
