Fans of the spec bemoan lack of transparency in Interop 2024 process
  • Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced Interop 2024, a project to promote web browser interoperability.
  • JPEG XL, a potential replacement for JPEG and PNG image formats, was not included in Interop 2024.
  • The rejection of JPEG XL has been blamed on Google, with the Google Chrome team deciding not to support the image compression technology.

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  • @redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
    12•10 months ago

    I believe so. This line in the source code means it’ll only attempt the decoding if an img element for a .jxl image url fails to load.

    If you’re on safari, you can verify it by going to the demo page at https://niutech.github.io/jxl.js/ and inspect the image element. If the src attributes contain blob, then it’s decoded using the wasm decoder. If the src attribute contains url to a .jxl file, then it’s decoded natively.

    • 2xsaikoEnglish
      1•10 months ago

      Very cool, thanks. Will keep this in mind.