Leaflet to [email protected]English • 14 days agoFirefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL (with Google's help)github.comexternal-linkmessage-square10arrow-up1186arrow-down13cross-posted to: [email protected]jpegxl
arrow-up1183arrow-down1external-linkFirefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL (with Google's help)github.comLeaflet to [email protected]English • 14 days agomessage-square10cross-posted to: [email protected]jpegxl
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•14 days agoIt’s sad to see how Mozilla needs Google even for this. I hate that Google seems to have a finger in absolutely everything. Why? Because their end goal is a web where you need to identity yourself to them.
minus-square@pivot_rootlink21•14 days agoGoogle created the original reference implementation, libjxl. It’s not stupid that they would prefer a Rust rewrite be created by the same team. https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink15•edit-214 days agoIt’s likely that Google offered, and Mozilla doesn’t have a reason to say no. Google Research do this for a bunch of open source projects. Chrome needs a JPEG-XL decoder too, so I’d guess they’re going to share the code across both Chrome and Firefox.
It’s sad to see how Mozilla needs Google even for this.
I hate that Google seems to have a finger in absolutely everything. Why? Because their end goal is a web where you need to identity yourself to them.
Google created the original reference implementation, libjxl. It’s not stupid that they would prefer a Rust rewrite be created by the same team.
https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl
It’s likely that Google offered, and Mozilla doesn’t have a reason to say no. Google Research do this for a bunch of open source projects.
Chrome needs a JPEG-XL decoder too, so I’d guess they’re going to share the code across both Chrome and Firefox.
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