- 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.
Archive link: https://archive.ph/nulY6
Thanks to wasm, you don’t have to bow to Google’s whim and can choose to include jpeg xl support on your websites if you want: https://github.com/niutech/jxl.js
I read “wasm” as per “wasp” – white, Anglo-Saxon – and then my brain create “men” because Protestant didn’t make sense. And I continued to read the sentence until context didn’t make sense.
But it still kind of does.
(Yes, I know web assembly is a thing. Just making conversation.)
Wasps are also a type of insect.
Do you know if it uses the native decoder if available (so, in Safari I guess)? Doesn’t say in the readme.
I believe so. This line in the source code means it’ll only attempt the decoding if an
imgelement for a.jxlimage url fails to load.