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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  • RayJW@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    49·
    5 months ago

    I still won’t get over it and will keep fighting for JPEG XL. It would fix so many issues and greatly reduce the bandwidth need of the internet while not either having weird licensing or royalties and / or being a „what if we just took one frame from a video“ picture format. Also it can encode back to JPEG lossless for legacy uses. What more could one want?

    • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
      122·
      5 months ago

      I mean there are advantages to using AV1 for photos… Hardware accelerated decoding being one.

      Decoding a large AVIF image grid should in theory work on a GPU and happen faster with less power than any software based image format implementation.

      AV1 is also just an awesome format that’s entirely free to use out of the gate.

      • RayJW@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        13·
        5 months ago

        Well yes, however without acceleration JPEG XL is many times faster. Also if you only have a CPU for example.

        It’s also highly parallelizable compared to AVIF which also matters a lot considering the amount of cores is growing with the likes of ARM and hybrid architecture CPU.

        AVIF also fairs badly with high fidelity and lossless encoding, has 1/3 the bit depth and pretty small dimension limits for something like photography.

        I don’t think AVIF is per se a bad format. I just think if I want to replace a photo oriented format I’d like to do that with one that’s focused on „good“ photos and not just an afterthought with up- and downsides.