I’m still salty about Google’s rejection of JPEG XL.
Why care about JPEG XL?
Because it seems very promising.
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Rejection?
Google started working on JPEG XL support for chrome, then dropped it despite significant industry support.
Why did they do that?
Don’t know, many possible reasons. In fairness, even Mozilla hasn’t decided to fully invest in it, and libjxl
hasn’t defined a stable public API yet.
That said, I really don’t think that’s the kind of issue that’d stop Google if they wanted to push something forward. They’d find a way, help development, something.
And unfortunately for all of us, Google Chrome sort of… Immensely influences what the web is and will be. They can’t excuse themselves saying “they’ll work on it, if it gains traction” when them supporting anything is fundamental to it gaining traction in the first place.
You’d have to believe Google is acting in good faith for the sake of the internet and its users. I don’t think I need to explain why that’s far from guaranteed and in many issues incredibly unlikely.
P.S. I really need a single page with all this information I can easily link every time image standards in the web are mentioned. There’s stuff I’m leaving out because writing these comments takes some work, especially on a phone, and I’m tired of doing it.
What a joke, Quora needs to reevaluate whose responsibility that is.
Basic reasoning time: was it an accident?
What a surprise, both possibilities seem to point towards the project being a pile of crap.